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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!pasteur!hermes.Berkeley.EDU!bostic From: bostic@hermes.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Funding 4.4BSD Development Message-ID: <1992Jul1.003912.16115@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 1 Jul 92 00:39:12 GMT Article-I.D.: pasteur.1992Jul1.003912.16115 References: <18729@plains.NoDak.edu> <1992Jun27.160309.21709@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <1992Jun30.103533.5424@eng.ufl.edu> Sender: nntp@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (NNTP Poster) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 36 Nntp-Posting-Host: hermes.berkeley.edu First, we want to express our appreciation for all the suggestions that have been made in this newsgroup for various ways of funding the CSRG. We haven't been able to respond to everyone personally, but we want you to know that we appreciate your offers and the good wishes that accompanied them! Thanks! Second, I don't think it would be a good idea for me to work on an effort to fund the CSRG through net contributions, for several reasons. To be perfectly honest, I don't have the time, and it's not something at which I'd be very good. If someone else makes the effort, however, we will gladly accept any funding that will enable us to make 4.4BSD cleaner and more stable. As Sean Fagan said, we can be funded as a "gift", which means that the University gets approximately 2% of the money and we get the rest. So, any contributions will go directly to pay for work on 4.4BSD. Also, since the University is a tax exempt non-profit institution, any gift is tax deductible. The letter accompanying the contribution should say be something like: Enclosed is a gift in the amount of ___ which is given to CSRG as an unrestricted gift to further its research goals. The check itself should be made out to ``The Regents of the University of California'', and mailed to: Keith Bostic 457 Evans Hall Dept. of EECS University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 We'll post to this newsgroup and let you know how this rather unorthodox funding effort works! Keith Bostic