From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 16:36:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA06636 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:36:27 -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 QAA06629 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:36:25 -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 TAA21319; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:36:10 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Mike Smith Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 00:38:07 GMT Message-ID: <3505f27d.44276580@mail.cetlink.net> References: <199803050011.QAA22972@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <199803050011.QAA22972@dingo.cdrom.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 QAA06631 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 04 Mar 1998 16:11:25 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >What people are resisting is that the FreeBSD project, whose volunteers >are already chronically overworked, should do this finding and >organising for you. What is *annoying* people is that this has been >said to you at least five or six times already, and you appear to have >either ignored or simply failed to understand it. You're just not getting it, because you're still thinking small. I'm not asking volunteers to do anything. I'm proposing a model which may *possibly* attract enough money to create an organization which can affort to hire administrators to handle those chores, and pay the coders for what they do best. Think in terms of a $10,000,000 (or more) budget per year and you will begin to see the light. -- Browser war over, Mozilla now free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message