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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!qns1.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD CD-ROM : Walnet Creek or Infomagic ? Date: 9 Jan 1995 22:24:51 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3esd3j$gj1@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <3e8t0q$gnp@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <3edfnv$4i5@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> <3edj15$csp@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <3eoql3$1h7@nntp1.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <3eoql3$1h7@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, Tim Smith <tzs@u.washington.edu> wrote: >Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >>Having been involved with these sorts of things for a long time, it very >>easy to get burnt out and see very good projects such as FreeBSD, >>NetBSD, XFree86, Linux, etc... die because the folks that do them get >>tired of working for nothing and/or lack of resources when one person >>can no longer provide the necessary resources for the project to >>continue. > >Then why don't the folks doing them make them shareware instead of >freeware or GPLware? Because then one doesn't get the satisfaction of people actually using the software since in most cases shareware doesn't work, and in the second case the there is still a lot of work involved with doing shareware which cause you to get burnt out as well. Having someone *notice* what you are doing is different than begging for money which I think using shareware implies. Nate -- nate@FreeBSD.org | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@schizo.coe.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-5980 | Got lots of offers for work, now I need to home #: (406) 586-0579 | decide which job to take. :)