From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 16:05:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23632 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:05:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mn26hp6.honeywell.com (mn26hp6.honeywell.com [129.30.4.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23418 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:05:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sleas@mn26hp6.honeywell.com) Received: from localhost by mn26hp6.honeywell.com with SMTP (1.40.112.4/16.2) id AA218599795; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:03:15 -0600 Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:03:15 -0600 (CST) From: Shawn Leas To: Andreas Braukmann Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <19980304001431.28327@paert.tse-online.de> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Andreas Braukmann wrote: > > > 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' Anyone have any input on the 'user group' angle? As Andreas pointed out, a business will like to be able to justify its' donations in some quantifiable fashion. I do, however, warn against being percieved as being obligated contractually to fix or do anything in a legal sense. Some of us have seen corporate finger pointing before. The user group approach is a nice way to go. Shawn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message