Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:55:54 +0100 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: "Michael W. Oliver" <freebsd-current@gargantuan.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future of FreeBSD Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.1.20040410153432.081145e0@imap.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040410142317.GB44146@gargantuan.com> References: <20040410115135.GA20807@norsu.kameli.org> <8501.1081595369@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040410142317.GB44146@gargantuan.com>
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At 15:23 10/04/2004, Michael W. Oliver wrote: >On 2004-04-10T13:09:29+0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> Imagine if some of our users sent $1/month for each FreeBSD machine >> they were running. > >Ok, I will send in $5/month for each machine that I have running >FreeBSD. Can you verify for me that the FreeBSD Foundation is the >proper recipient for this donation? The FreeBSD Foundation is *a* proper recipient; whether it is *the* proper recipient depends upon your intention. The Foundation gets work done which they think is important; their views may or may not align with yours, and you certainly won't be able to point to anything and say "my money paid for that". If I had money to donate (which I don't!) I'd probably buy items from the FreeBSD Developer "Want List" and/or pay committers directly; but that's entirely a personal preference. (As a side note: RedHat charged people $60/year for access to their binary update service; I've been providing binary updates to FreeBSD for the past year, and I'm averaging about $0.30 per user so far -- and all but $10 of that was in response to a targetted drive for money so that I could buy hardware for building said updates.) Colin Percival
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