From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 15:14:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11795 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 15:14:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from paert.tse-online.de (paert.tse-online.de [194.97.69.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA11713 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 15:14:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@paert.tse-online.de) Received: (qmail 3137 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Mar 1998 23:14:31 -0000 Message-ID: <19980304001431.28327@paert.tse-online.de> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 00:14:31 +0100 From: Andreas Braukmann To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? References: <11806.888962618@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Handy on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 02:14:54PM -0800 Organization: TSE TeleService GmbH Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Would people be willing to subscribe to a *different* > > subscription plan where a donation to FreeBSD, Inc was > > already factored in? > Yea, I'd do this. me too. (no, ... I'm not posting from aol ;-)) It's definitly the easiest way to pay for free software. (for me) We're a quite young business and can't spend really much money on FreeBSD. Everybody - including some of our shareholders - knows that FreeBSD (our strategic server-platform) is a free piece of software. If I would donate a significant amount of money to the FreeBSD-project for appearantly no reason, they would ask me about that (for sure :() I would have no problems with the following solutions: - some kind of 'high-end' / 'premier-support' subscription for the release-CDs - printed documentation - membership in some kind of 'user group' -ab -- /// TSE TeleService GmbH | Gsf: Arne Reuter | /// Hovestrasse 14 | Andreas Braukmann | We do it with /// D-48351 Everswinkel | HRB: 1430, AG WAF | FreeBSD/SMP /// ------------------------------------------------------------------- /// PGP-Key: http://www.tse-online.de/~ab/public-key /// Key fingerprint: 12 13 EF BC 22 DD F4 B6 3C 25 C9 06 DC D3 45 9B To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message