Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:10:20 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community Message-ID: <90133.1199970620@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:00:53 EST." <47861705.2030609@gmail.com>
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In message <47861705.2030609@gmail.com>, "Aryeh M. Friedman" writes: >> A lot of our users do this. We have many crucial FreeBSD >> developers employed at companies which understand that developer >> support is key to FreeBSDs future. >> >> We just need more of that. > >We also need to have better avenues for people who want to contribute >but do not have the economic means to subsidize there work from some >large company, gov. agency and/or university... i.e. there is no room >for independent people to contribute on a full time basis... We have never required anybody to have employment to participate in FreeBSD: If you're able and willing, you're welcome. >BTW as to the single sentence that would recitify this in the bsd >license it would be something as simple as: > > "Execution of covered work in any form may be conditioned to >payment fees (if any) and/or performing work in kind detailed at >http://......". No, no, no, NO & NO F**KING WAY! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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