From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 11:55:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F8C1065674 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:55:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cbergstrom@pathscale.com) Received: from mail-pv0-f182.google.com (mail-pv0-f182.google.com [74.125.83.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA248FC1C for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:55:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvg11 with SMTP id 11so3897006pvg.13 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.41.165 with SMTP id g5mr8282185pbl.106.1310990132664; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (ppp-58-8-59-146.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.59.146]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b4sm2453279pba.43.2011.07.18.04.55.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:55:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E242099.1050007@pathscale.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:01:29 +0700 From: =?UTF-8?B?IkMuIEJlcmdzdHLDtm0i?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20101031 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD References: <20110717071059.25971662@scorpio> <4E23F31C.3010803@pathscale.com> <20110718073000.29e89590@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20110718073000.29e89590@scorpio> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jerry Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore 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: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:55:33 -0000 On 07/18/11 06:30 PM, Jerry wrote: > I suggested several years ago, and I will re-suggest that FreeBSD start > a program that would allow programmers to be paid to write code that > either the regular contributors do not want to write or are not capable > of writing. Like a bounties page? (If such a thing doesn't currently exist it would be a good idea for someone to start one) In my experience though they generally don't get a lot of attention and you're maybe better off on a case-by-case basis approaching a developer you know that could do the work for you. Is there a company that produces a commercially supported version of FreeBSD that also actively contributes back and doesn't keep anything closed? (ixsystems is about as close as I can think to such a thing. Sorry if this is really obvious, but I don't track this space so closely)