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!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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