Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:46:26 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <199803042346.QAA13147@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <34fde4f8.40814877@mail.cetlink.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980304105816.438T-100000@localhost> <34fde4f8.40814877@mail.cetlink.net>
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> >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. Great, go hire a FreeBSD developer full-time, and you'll get the best of both worlds. > If FreeBSD developers don't want their "volunteer" project to grow > into a well funded organization, another group will come along who do. History disagrees with you. > And they can easily take all the work done by the poor volunteers and > call their own project BigBucksBSD or whatever they like. You mean like 'BSDi'? Me-thinks such an organization already exists, and isn't doing so well IMHO. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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