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Date:      Thu, 05 Mar 1998 10:37:29 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly)
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Donations. 
Message-ID:  <9741.889090649@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Mar 1998 00:38:07 GMT." <3505f27d.44276580@mail.cetlink.net> 

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In message <3505f27d.44276580@mail.cetlink.net>, John Kelly writes:

>I'm not asking volunteers to do anything.  I'm proposing a model which
>may *possibly* attract enough money to create an organization which
>can affort to hire administrators to handle those chores, and pay the
>coders for what they do best.
>
>Think in terms of a $10,000,000 (or more) budget per year and you will
>begin to see the light.

Quite frankly, I don't think we would be able to spend more than about
$1M/y efficiently.  Anything above that would get us a lot less bang/buck.
And even $1M may be too high for our ability.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!"

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