From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 8 13:36:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA16326 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 13:36:53 -0800 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA16310 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 13:36:40 -0800 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id QAA03120; Wed, 8 Mar 1995 16:33:28 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199503082133.QAA03120@hda.com> Subject: Re: BSD Consortium? To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 16:33:28 -0500 (EST) Cc: hsu@cs.hut.fi, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, terry@cs.weber.edu, witr@rwwa.com In-Reply-To: <9503081818.AA01327@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 8, 95 11:18:11 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1458 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > > > I'll promise to donate $100 of my own, and, say $400 of my company money to > > BSD (or Free operating system) Consortium if one will ever be set up to get > > rid of this mess. > > Actually, this was first considered some time ago, and was discussed > at length by Robert Withrow, myself, and others. > It must be in the air. I sent out a message about a FreeBSD consortium the other day. It was eaten in the great mailing list lossage; I don't know if anyone saw it or not. My point was (as it was the last time we discussed this) that when I put together proposals that feature FreeBSD then a consortium lends more credibility. You have more elaborate plans (but that is to be expected...), and you want a new entity independent of FreeBSD and NetBSD, something I suspect will muddy the waters even more. (Terry's good ideas deleted. I'll add the all important four color brochure presenting the goals of the organization and listing the members, which is what I could really use right now) > To keep the ball rolling, I could probably come up with $500 as well > (but I'd want a T-shirt or a cloisoine Daemon pin and a nice "charter > member" certificate or something). 8-). $500 here also if we can agree on the charter for the organization. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267