From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 15:57:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE3CD16A47B for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:57:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6148013C458 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:57:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0AFrDLu097792; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:53:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l0AFrDbv097791; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:53:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:53:13 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: Nikolas Britton Message-ID: <20070110155312.GC97702@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <45A2805E.7060000@ccstores.com> <20070109222558.GA75695@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070110003730.GA94711@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20070110073106.89d726a8.coolzone@io.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Rico Secada , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:57:50 -0000 On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:12:46AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 1/10/07, Rico Secada wrote: > >On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:01:51 -0600 > >"Nikolas Britton" wrote: > > > >> > FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. > >> > Seems like you just posted a nice list of things > >> > for you to get busy and contribute. > >> > > >> > >> I don't have time to contribute work, I have a business to manage as > >> well as other obligations that come first... I need this stuff to just > >> work... so I can get real things done. > > > >So you need people to work freely, without any pay, to make things work > >for you, so you can complain when something isn't working like you > >want it to!? So you can get real things done!? > > > >If you have a business to manage, and just need this to work, made by > >people who contribute for free, maybe its time you start to pay someone!? > > > > Repost: > I'm more then willing to pay real money to support the sub-projects > that are of interest to me. I need to see some real progress being > made in return though. Feel free to start working on any of the > problems I listed. When you have something to show me I'll send some > cash. Maybe core needs to make it easier to direct are funds to the > sub-projects of are choice and still qualify it as a deductible > expense. Then maybe you need to spend that money getting something you need done. Hire someone or assign one of your better employees to work part of their time on some aspect that is important to see done. Some of the people who work on the FreeBSD project may do contract work, but the project in itself, in general does not do contract work. It does not work from a list of demands from customers, but from things that the people who are both using it and working on it take the time and effort to get done - primarily because they want/need to have that thing done. This leave you lots of room to do something positive. ////jerry > > >Now just shut up and go away!!! > > > > No. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"