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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:39:39 -0500
From:      "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community
Message-ID:  <4785D9CB.5080909@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <88854.1199953554@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <88854.1199953554@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <478556AD.6090400@bsdforen.de>, Dominic Fandrey writes:
>
>> The first problem is [...]
>
> No.
>
> The first problem FreeBSD has, is that the users do not financially
> support enough full-time developers.

There are some possible solutions to the lack of funding without
having to ask corps for huge donations (they would actually improve
the amount of contributed work also in all likellyhood.... see my blog
http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/index.php)
>
> That is also problem number 2, 3, 4 and probably up to around 10.
>
> There is no ill will in the FreeBSD developer community, if we could
> do it better, we would.
>
> But the majority of us, spend our time doing other stuff for a living,
> and as long as that is the case, FreeBSD plays second fiddle.
>
> Find a way to fix that, and there is no place FreeBSD couldn't go.
>
> Poul-Henning
>


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Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools
http://www.flosoft-systems.com
Developer, not business, friendly.
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