Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:42:56 -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: <4785E8A0.30806@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4785D9CB.5080909@gmail.com> References: <88854.1199953554@critter.freebsd.dk> <4785D9CB.5080909@gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > 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) > Forgot to mention that the approach outline is fairly compatible with the BSD style of doing stuff (one of the other people involved with the effort is actually drafting a BSD style license that is 100% compatible with the current one (Free)BSD license)... see devel/thistest (the only reason for no binary distribution is I require explicit acceptance of the license terms... besides syncing the distfiles with the current version is easier this way) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHheigjRvRjGmHRgQRAnXiAJ9p9+vbX1T4ECvq4vQRvBAJ3uy9QwCfWOXJ UlEe2tcs/J6VztJYk6/i0lY= =75ky -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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