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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:00:52 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community
Message-ID:  <20080110110052.GB10155@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4785E8A0.30806@gmail.com>
References:  <88854.1199953554@critter.freebsd.dk> <4785D9CB.5080909@gmail.com> <4785E8A0.30806@gmail.com>

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Quoting Aryeh M. Friedman, who wrote on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:42:56AM -0500 ..
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> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> In message <478556AD.6090400@bsdforen.de>, Dominic Fandrey
> >> writes:
> >
> >>> The first problem is [...]
> >> No.
> >
> >> The first problem FreeBSD has, is that the users do not
> >> financially support enough full-time developers.
> >
> > There are some possible solutions to the lack of funding without
> > having to ask corps for huge donations (they would actually improve
> >  the amount of contributed work also in all likellyhood.... see my
> > blog
> > http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/index.php)
> >
> Forgot to mention that the approach outline is fairly compatible with
> the BSD style of doing stuff (one of the other people involved with
> the effort is actually drafting a BSD style license that is 100%
> compatible with the current one (Free)BSD license)... see

We need more licenses like we need a 3rd or 4th leg.  What is wrong with
the standard BSD license please?

Wilko

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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