From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 5 05:04:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA08097 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 05:04:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA08047; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 05:04:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from exit1.i485.net (i485-gw.cetlink.net [209.198.15.1]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA14458; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 08:04:07 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 13:06:05 GMT Message-ID: <350aa2cd.2329753@mail.cetlink.net> References: <7717.889093458@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <7717.889093458@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id FAA08048 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 05 Mar 1998 02:24:18 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: >[ return to sanity and redirect to -chat ] > >> 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. > >If I had $10M/yr, I'd simply spend $2M/yr on R&D, put $2M in the bank >for a rainy day and give the rest to an independent marketing firm for >promotional expenses. :-) > > Jordan This is part of the problem I'm addressing. The donors won't see eye to eye with your ideas of business and financial management. They will expect to retain control of the funding and how it's allocated. And frankly, Jordan, your rudeness, hostility, and anger toward those who don't agree with you indicates an unsuitability for the task. -- Browser war over, Mozilla now free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message