From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 23 15:26:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles539.castles.com [208.214.165.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F221556D for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:25:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00330; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 07:32:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199904231432.HAA00330@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Nick Hibma Cc: Amancio Hasty , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf LINT GENERIC In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:02:30 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 07:32:00 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > P.S.: USBDI as in, our version of it. The people from the consortium > > > kicked us out. > > > Can you elaborate on the reason that USBDI does not FreeBSD > > to be involved with the consortium? > > Money. We cannot pay the fee (>1000 US $) to join the kindergarten aka > consortium. No company was willing to pay it for us and the consortium > was not willing to waive the fee, because not-for-profit organisations > still draw a certain benefit for their community, or something along > those lines. All sounds a bit strange if you consider the fact that the > spec will be open and free-for-all eventualy. Actually, there are a combination of issues. The cost involved in being a member is one issue, another is that to remain a "member in good standing" you have to attend at least one meeting every three months (ie. travel to/around the USA), and the third is that you need to be able to negotiate and sign legal agreements on behalf of your organisation. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message