Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:03:15 -0600 (CST) From: Shawn Leas <sleas@mn26hp6.honeywell.com> To: Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980303175545.16007F-100000@mn26hp6.honeywell.com> In-Reply-To: <19980304001431.28327@paert.tse-online.de>
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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
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