From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 16:28:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04007 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:28:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@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 QAA04002 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:28:45 -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 TAA20415; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:28:27 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Nate Williams Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 00:30:25 GMT Message-ID: <3504f132.43945382@mail.cetlink.net> References: <3500e925.41883882@mail.cetlink.net> <199803050007.RAA13519@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199803050007.RAA13519@mt.sri.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 QAA04003 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:07:45 -0700, Nate Williams wrote: >> >I would agree, and in any case, an entity with a large chunck of money >> >and a specific feature in mind would be better off funding the effort >> >directly. >> >> That causes fragmentation and duplication of efforts. Collective >> unity is better. > >Back that up with facts, or even explanations, please? If you have 50 contractors all working and paid independently, with little or no knowledge of what the others are doing, duplication and wasted effort is inevitable. On the other hand, a funded FreeBSD could be a clearinghouse for better organization. >People have (and will continue) the ability and desire to do *anything* >they want, including doing the same project that someone else is doing. >Commercial and/or volunteer, that's not going to change. > >Your straw-man argument has no merit. Sorry, can't agree with you there. -- Browser war over, Mozilla now free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message