Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:39:39 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community Message-ID: <4785D9CB.5080909@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <88854.1199953554@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <88854.1199953554@critter.freebsd.dk>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <478556AD.6090400@bsdforen.de>, Dominic Fandrey writes: > >> The first problem is [...] > > No. > > The first problem FreeBSD has, is that the users do not financially > support enough full-time developers. There are some possible solutions to the lack of funding without having to ask corps for huge donations (they would actually improve the amount of contributed work also in all likellyhood.... see my blog http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/index.php) > > That is also problem number 2, 3, 4 and probably up to around 10. > > There is no ill will in the FreeBSD developer community, if we could > do it better, we would. > > But the majority of us, spend our time doing other stuff for a living, > and as long as that is the case, FreeBSD plays second fiddle. > > Find a way to fix that, and there is no place FreeBSD couldn't go. > > Poul-Henning > - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhdnLjRvRjGmHRgQRAoIOAJ9GaIicmuZVrmSSbpN5wYxIzq6R8wCfdgrQ GcXteNS0qyiKCg7cCD/8yng= =YoXP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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