Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 22:29:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: stuyman@confusion.net (Laurence Berland), oogali@intranova.net (Omachonu Ogali), lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM (Lanny Baron), freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the talk about fbsd in linux and free cd's Message-ID: <200003072229.PAA01684@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <52680.951617305@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 26, 2000 06:08:25 PM
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> > umm maybe I'm out on a limb here, but there is a FreeBSD Inc, which I > > thought to be the "project" as you put it. FreeBSD Inc isn't a not for > > profit, but the question is whether or not it's the project. > > FreeBSD, Inc. is not the project. It is a fund-raising entity FOR the > project and will have at least that aspect of its operations shut down > once the FreeBSD Foundation thingy gets created as a full 501(c)3 > charitable organization. That has not yet happened and I'm not going > to make any predictions as to when it will. FYI, to sweeten the pot: IBM matches all contributions to charitible organizations, and I don't donate (except through pariphenalia and CDROM sales) because I can'tdeduct it on my taxes. I think Matt Dillon might be looking for a tax writeoff, too... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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