Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 11:55:13 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <19980305115513.01043@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <3501ea66.42205029@mail.cetlink.net>; from John Kelly on Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 12:02:37AM %2B0000 References: <6845.889044751@critter.freebsd.dk> <3501ea66.42205029@mail.cetlink.net>
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On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 12:02:37AM +0000, John Kelly wrote: > On Wed, 04 Mar 1998 21:52:31 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp > <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote: > > >>do we really want large amounts of corporate money? > > >No, I don't think we do, but it would be really nice if we could get > >a handful of the best hackers we have liberated from the utter waste > >of time which occupies too much of their lives. > > Whether the money is small or large, I don't see why anyone should be > unwilling to work at the direction of those funding the effort. They > do it at their current employment, why not for the paying donors of > FreeBSD? My personal case: I want more input than I'd get working only on FreeBSD proper. I'm not certain I'd do as good work on FreeBSD if I had to work only on that 'forever'. But I still think being able to buy 6 months of people's time would be a Good Thing. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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