Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:36:32 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" <peters@staidan.qld.edu.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What ever happened to... ? / new money spinner Message-ID: <2D7D104B40@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au>
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On 19 Dec 95 at 8:41, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > Gary, > You are way off base here. Walnut Creek provides SIGNIFICANT support > for the FreeBSD project. 1) They supply development hardware. 2) > They supply Internet connectivity. and 3) They pay the salary of > Jordan to work FULL TIME on FreeBSD. > > Frankly, I don't see how they are making enough on all the FreeBSD > materials to provide this much support and still break even on the > P&L statement. > > ---- > Richard Wackerbarth > rkw@dataplex.net This may not be of any help, but perhaps a new freebsd product would help? The one I have in mind is a documentation / support CD. If it included the -questions archive, the handbook, the documentation project and the browsable kernel source. All in html or some other portable format, with a browser. You get the picture, setup so even a newbie could work it. Perhaps with ghostscript, chimera, xdvi etc in packages. Present it to WC ready to print, and ask for 5% of the profit for a hardware/development fund. I can tell you that I'd subscribe straight away. Since I run FreeBSD at home without a net link, I'd refer to it all the time. At work it'd be great since I could mount it under my web page heirarchy and browse at CD speed, rather that the dog slow AARNET speed here in Australia. This is a product I'd love to see! What do you think? Peter Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432
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