Michael Sierchio
2003-Sep-21 09:08 UTC
[Fwd: OSDisc.com donating 10% to FreeBSD Foundation]
WTF are these morons? Bcc'ing the FreeBSD Stable list with SPAM, UCE, etc. seems to me to be in terribly bad taste. I'm putting down my teacup so I can retract my pinkie and make a fist. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "osdisc.com sales dept" <sales@osdisc.com> Subject: OSDisc.com donating 10% to FreeBSD Foundation Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:10:45 -0600 Size: 3088 Url: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20030921/9bbdbc3b/OSDisc.eml
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:08:17AM -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:> > WTF are these morons? Bcc'ing the FreeBSD Stable list with SPAM, > UCE, etc. seems to me to be in terribly bad taste. I'm putting > down my teacup so I can retract my pinkie and make a fist.It's an announcement of something that they're doing to help the project. While perhaps this should have been kept to -announce, I'm happy to see it. Ceri> Delivered-To: kudzu@tenebras.com > Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > From: "osdisc.com sales dept" <sales@osdisc.com> > Organization: osdisc.com > To: sales@osdisc.com > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:10:45 -0600 > User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 > Message-Id: <200309201610.45506.sales@osdisc.com> > X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 05:21:33 -0700 > Subject: OSDisc.com donating 10% to FreeBSD Foundation > List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable> > List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> > > 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-- User: DO YOU ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR? Iniaes: Sure, I can accept all forms of payment. -- www.chatterboxchallenge.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20030922/5734df88/attachment.bin
Ramsey G. Brenner
2003-Sep-24 02:36 UTC
[Fwd: OSDisc.com donating 10% to FreeBSD Foundation]
Hi Murray,> Actually, I misread the email. He didn't offer to donate 10% of > revenue, but 10% of profits. Assuming he is running a profitable > company (which I doubt), then we can assume something like a 3% profit > margin. 10% of 3% of $5 is 1.5 cents. Of course, you can get rid of > any profits in a small company by just paying out bonuses or other > compensation, but if you're a really optimistic person, you can buy > from OSDisc and hope that 1 cent will go to the foundation for your > purchase. No thanks. ;(Im really not interested in playing some kind of game with the freebsd project. When I said 10% of the profits, I meant 10% of the profits from each sale. The donation would be more like $0.45 - $0.75 (for the 3 cd set). I'll agree it isnt much, and it probably wont amount to much (especially when compared to what the freebsd mall has given), but atleast its something. I dont know of any competitors of mine (who are selling cheap cds) who donate anything at all. If someone can afford to buy from the freebsd mall, I encorage them to do so... but if someone doesnt want to spend $40+ (for whatever reason), then why not buy it from us? Lastly, I know I cross posted, and I apologize. Best regards, Ramsey Brenner OSDisc.com Founder