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. --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@ChrisBowman.com <A HREF="http://www.ChrisBowman.com">My home page</A> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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