Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 10:10:39 +1000 From: George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, sthaug@nethelp.no, dannyman@sasquatch.dannyland.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Fund Message-ID: <12876.888970239@dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Mar 1998 15:48:10 PST." <12923.888968890@time.cdrom.com>
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This 'how to spend the money' thing is getting into twisty paths. I suggest: #1 lets not figure out how to spend what we don't have #2 tied money is ALWAYS less useful than 'spend as you wish' #3 is not called PAYbsd. Please don't lets make second-class netizens. So I suggest that current not-for-profit trustees be just that: trusted. -to spend with discretion on relevant activity. If it benefits people who pay, it should benefit everybody else as well or it doesn't meet tax-free requirements. Spending $$$ to pay people to finish off significant work, or to buy h/w to make it possible, thats cool. The wider benefit is plain. I'll shell my spare $$$ for some SMP work, and I don't even have an SMP box right now. But I'll be mightily pissed off if this winds up being another commercial venture. Making a priviledged access FTP area, or 'I saw it first' subscription bugfixes is really not it. Don't print buttons and badges unless the printing and distribution costs are covered by some other money, or are massively outweighed by the donation coming in. Its increadibly easy to eat up 30% or more of donated money in 'overheads' which we don't need. It really pisses me off when I give to charity and find that somebody makes 10% and on even a mil thats a damn big 'thankyou'.. Badges? we don't NEED no steenking BODGES! So can we stop this thread, and leave somebody Like Jordan to hassle a web engine with SSL and pgp online, and then just give the money, and go back to sleep? -George PS those dudes running a massively loosely coupled image distribution thingy should be given a big rouse. That is the kind of kick-ass promo FreeBSD is about. -- George Michaelson | DSTC Pty Ltd Email: ggm@dstc.edu.au | University of Qld 4072 Phone: +61 7 3365 4310 | Australia Fax: +61 7 3365 4311 | http://www.dstc.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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