CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:01:40 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:51:05 -0700
> > Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> Offering monetary compensation is not a solution, and I believe
> >> that's because the core problem isn't lack of pay -- it's lack of
> >> time. That's one which is really hard to solve, no matter what the
> >> conditions of an open-source project.
> > 
> > Hmm, perhaps you and others should train people instead?
> > Offer to pay a student to learn FreeBSD, and to train her / him as
> > developer.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode-2008.html

Yes, I know about Google SoC, and it is a good thing (a _very_ good
thing). I was thinking more along the lines that if offering money for
fixing stuff doesn't work, then maybe getting more interest (in
addition to SoC) would work better.

Therer must be a reason why nobody has formed a commercial compnay to
fix bugs / develop new features fro FreeBSD (either with own employees
or with hired people) already.
To me, that means that the demand isn't big enough to make it a viable
business plan.
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway