-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: > redirected to -chat.
I just do reply all's so it goes where it goes... For a more complete set of answers to the below issues see: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1424092+0+current/freebsd-current > > Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Aryeh M. Friedman" >>> writes: >>>>> We need more licenses like we need a 3rd or 4th leg. What >>>>> is wrong with the standard BSD license please? >>>> I decided to elaborate slightly on the previous reply.... >>> I am fully with Wilko here. We don't need to change the license >>> or use any other means to beat our users over the head. We need >>> them to understand the problem, and act as intelligent human >>> beings. A lot of our users do this. We have many crucial >>> FreeBSD developers employed at companies which understand that >>> developer support is key to FreeBSDs future. We just need more >>> of that. > > You know, there's more than one way to see that. I clearly recall > being elated, at first, when I was first employed to do FreeBSD > kernel work. I did that, and a bunch of daemon work, and (like I > often do, for work) I got heavily into it, nearly to the exclusion > of all available hobby time (I really do like messing with > computers). You know what happened? I found I had no time left, > at all, for hobby FreeBSD work and I even left the mailing lists. > I didn't leave FreeBSD work, but as far as you folks were > concerned, I might as well have. As far I know I am not purposing a system where you *MUST* recieve a reward for your work just where it is possible via more direct means then currently handled. > > As far as I'm concerned, I think that getting employed to do > FreeBSD work is one great way to stop doing hobby computing. Am I > alone in this? And beyond that, the work I was doing was stuff > that the FreeBSD community wouldn't have been terribly interested > in. Yes, the company could have showed a touch more *give back to > the community* sort of actions, but they wren['t really the reason > that I left FreeBSD; I was. > > Am I alone in this? But forcing everyone to do it as a hobby unless your "lucky" enough to work for an employer who supports the efforts is equal wrong. - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools. http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. "Free software != Free beer" Blog: http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/index.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhvhLjRvRjGmHRgQRAhQbAJ0dKUYrGlVKJ0CNJBC/yy7hmFEEWACgmtjE CvQh/CUtcGOrht3PvpFDFRE= =kwq8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
