Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:44:56 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie <Brian_Beattie@Atlas.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net>, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donations. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980304123946.19978E-100000@coyote.prepaid.atlas.com> In-Reply-To: <1444.889019123@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > With a pool of $500,000 to spend, neither Jordan nor core should be > > deciding what gets funded. Funding decisions should be controlled by > > the donors themselves, collectively. And voting is the only way to do > > that. > > This is a complete waste of time. I've already told you - if you have > a problem with the way funding is allocated then simply don't donate > funds, it's very simple. Can we get back to work now? > 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. One thing that concerns me is the following: 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? Brian Beattie Atlas PrePaid Services Brian_Beattie@atlas.com 503.228.1400x4355 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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