Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:42:00 +0800 From: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support Message-ID: <d763ac660612220242o3c246929r1488b86cb0d8c91@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <nospam-1166783799.93169@iliad.gbch.net> References: <000801c723bb$efc2b540$260ba8c0@wii.wintecind.com> <458A2B14.5070009@freebsd.org> <458A97BF.1090503@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20061221095811.886d9850.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <200612220259.kBM2xYxc019408@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> <20061222051513.GK63341@manor.msen.com> <20061222082639.GC837@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <nospam-1166783799.93169@iliad.gbch.net>
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You know, if people really do run FreeBSD-4.11 servers which are mission critical (and, hopefully, making money in the process) then please consider donating money to the project to get FreeBSD-6 sorted out. You could perhaps sponsor a FreeBSD developer for a few months to run through the bugs you're seeing in your environment and get the bugs fixed. It might cost you, say, AUD $4kish a month for 6 months but if your stuff is mission critical (and, again, earning you money) then that could just be an operational expense which saves you a whole lot of headache in the long run. Open Software isn't Free. (I have the same problem with the Squid project. Lots of people want Squid to do everything, noone's willing to hire programmers to fix up Squid to do these things and release the work back to the public. Then people complain that Squid doesn't have 21st century features. Grr. Sometimes I think we in the Squid project need better PR..) Adrian
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