Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:33:03 -0700 From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Making donations easier (was Re: Can't get WC to bill me right!) Message-ID: <15142.46271.434974.979654@hip186.ch.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20010613000151.9004.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> References: <200106122352.JAA23943@lightning.itga.com.au> <20010613000151.9004.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>
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[ On Tuesday, June 12, Gerd Knops wrote: ] > Same fate here. EMails and phone calls did not help. Guess I will > cancel my subscription, hate to support incompetence. There are > probably better ways than a subscription to support FreeBSD anyway. > Well, now that you brought it up, I will bring up the question I've been wanting to ask but afraid to as it brought up flames last time somebody mentioned it. I use FreeBSD. I love FreeBSD. I live FreeBSD (ask my wife :). I want to support FreeBSD. I keep my subscription to FreeBSD cd's just as a "token" of my appreciation for the developers in the hopes that some of my $$$ gets fed back to those who are paid professionally to develop it or for funds for buying new hardware for paid/unpaid developers to dink with. Jordan has several times said that "not much profit" are brought in from the CD-ROM sales (quoting jkh "loosely" here). I haven't actually *used* my CDs (except for pushing them onto people at work and giving them to my little girl as a fascinating toy) since 3.0-RELEASE--after that with broadband access and ISO images, it's pretty pointless. I just keep the subscription to "support" FreeBSD. I see that section 20.2.5 of the Handbook shows that contributions can be sent to FreeBSD, Inc. or wired directly to a Bank of America account. I was trudging to some project's website yesterday (open source software--can't remember what it was) and they had opened up a Paypal account where donations could be given to support the project. Couldn't we get this avenue setup as well considering that there already is a Bank of America account for FreeBSD, Inc.? I personally would cancel my CD subscription and funnel the same $$$ dollars around each release into this account if it was "easy" (i.e. Paypal ... ok, ebay has made me lazy :). Comments? -Jr ps: Is there some sort of quarterly public disclosure about how much money came into this account, where it went, what services or h/w was purchased with it, etc. While whole-heartedly wanting to support FreeBSD and its paid/unpaid developers, I wouldn't want to flush my money down some hole with no "tangible" value (much like my Home Owner's Association check each quarter :) or idea of where the $$$ went. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, (space for rent, cheap!) | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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