Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 23:57:00 GMT From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Brian Beattie <Brian_Beattie@Atlas.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <3500e925.41883882@mail.cetlink.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980304123946.19978E-100000@coyote.prepaid.atlas.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980304123946.19978E-100000@coyote.prepaid.atlas.com>
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On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:44:56 -0800 (PST), Brian Beattie <Brian_Beattie@Atlas.com> 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. >UNIX version 6 had in some sense three offspring, Research Edition 8 >(which never really made it out of the labs), BSD 4.4 and System V. If >one considers the funding model of the last two, do we really want large >amounts of corporate money? As long as the software remains "freed" it cannot be corrupted by any amount of money. Anyone unhappy with the changes can always split to form their own movement, maintaining collective unity within their own interest group. -- Browser war over, Mozilla now free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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