For those of you who would like to support FreeBSD but can't afford the more expensive official sets, OSDisc.com is selling it for $4.95. 10% of the profits will be donated to the FreeBSD Foundation. http://www.osdisc.com/ http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/donations.html http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/bsd/freebsd
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"osdisc.com sales dept" <sales@osdisc.com> writes:
: For those of you who would like to support FreeBSD but can't afford the
: more expensive official sets, OSDisc.com is selling it for $4.95. 10% of
: the profits will be donated to the FreeBSD Foundation.
Pardon my cynicism, but how do we know that you will make such a
donation? There have been several people that have claimed that they
will do that only to find out later that the foundation never hears
from them...
Warner
Hi Warner, I completely understand where you are coming from. All I can really say is, Im more interested in the good will it will create for the company than the extra bit of profit. I have donated code to a few other projects (although most of my projects are abandoned on sourceforge :) , and I have used FreeBSD since 3.4. Our CDs are made using FreeBSD, our webserver runs FreeBSD. Personally, im not interested in pissing-off the FreeBSD community. P.S. Thanks for the CC (I dont check my email from the mailing list that often) Best Regards, Ramsey Brenner OSDisc.com Founder
> It might be good to put a timeline on a donation (eg, monthly, > quarterly, yearly) so that people's expectations can be set > appropriately.Quarterly sounds good to me. We'll make the first donation at the end of the next quarter (since this one is over in about 10 days).> Finally, it isn't anything personal.Never thought it was :) Best Regards, Ramsey Brenner OSDisc.com Founder
For those of you who would like to support FreeBSD but can't afford the more expensive official sets, OSDisc.com is selling it for $4.95. 10% of the profits will be donated to the FreeBSD Foundation. http://www.osdisc.com/ http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/donations.html http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/bsd/freebsd