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Date:      Wed, 4 Mar 1998 23:25:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com>
To:        John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net>
Cc:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Donations. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980304232427.1291A-100000@quark.ChrisBowman.com>
In-Reply-To: <34fde4f8.40814877@mail.cetlink.net>

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On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, John Kelly wrote:

>On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:06:51 -0500 (EST), Chuck Robey
><chuckr@glue.umd.edu> wrote:
>
>>If the only thing that you can see are wasted opportunities to make bucks,
>>why are you involved with a volunteer OS?  I personally think it's because
>>you *like* messing around with FreeBSD ... isn't that so?
>>
>
>It started as a hobby but now my interest is primarily for business
>use.
>
>If FreeBSD developers don't want their "volunteer" project to grow
>into a well funded organization, another group will come along who do.
>And they can easily take all the work done by the poor volunteers and
>call their own project BigBucksBSD or whatever they like.
>
>I expect there will be a market demand for this, and some enterprising
>developers will step in to fill that demand.

I don't mean to be rude here, and I don't want to start a flame fest,
but I think some one has already done what you suggest and they
call themselves BSDI.

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Christopher R. Bowman
crb@ChrisBowman.com
<A HREF="http://www.ChrisBowman.com">My home page</A>


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