Hallo Andre Sorry, I didn't know that. It wasn't my intention to publish this thing so early. Personally, I fully agree with you.
regards, Thomas Vogt On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:10:58 +0200 Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Vogt wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > Some information for all Freebsd users: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html > > Perhaps this help to get the -stable branch after 5.4 :-) > > This is one of the things my call for ISPs using FreeBSD was > for. I've got many answers (privatly and public) and was > just compiling a list to contact all directly. > > You have been faster in posting this than me. What I want > to do is to make a FreeBSD development fund where companies > put up some regular donations (for example CHF 300/month or > CHF 1000/month or whatever they can afford in their budgets). > I would collect these donations and pipe it to FreeBSD committers > and fund them to work full or part-time on important FreeBSD > stuff. Everyone who is donating will get full insight how and > where the money is spend. > > With everyone donating a little bit we can make a quite useful > and stable fund. For examples 15 companies donating 300/month > is 4500/month and gets quite a bit going. The more you can > afford to donate the more time can be spend on development. > > -- > Andre > > (aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > ---------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/ > -- SolNet, Internet Solution Provider Bechburgstrasse 29, 4528 Zuchwil, Switzerland Phone: +41 32 686 82 82, Fax: +41 32 685 96 13 Thomas Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
