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Re: Root Name Server Confederations
From: Marc Hurst <mhurst () fastlane ca>
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 13:39:03 -0400 (EDT)
I would ignore the inuendo Paul.... Whether or not you run a non-profit or not does not matter. It is quite obvious the prevailing attitude towards groups like yours is that you should walk 20 miles to work, wear old clothes, feed your kids from the food bank and burn old newspapers to keep warm. Sure, On Thu, 22 May 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote:
I've been rimshot. I'm choosing not to ignore it. You should, though. Hit D!If you are looking for fame and fortune, I do not think that eDNS will deliver that. eDNS is largely a volunteer effort and I bet that any eDNS person would trade places with...Interesting choice of words there....some of the people that you might think are not in this for the "profits" even though they run "non-profit companies".That sounds like me.Ask those people to review their annual earnings with you sometime. I bet you do not get very far.Nothing I'm involved in is publically traded, but you are still entitled to look upon the nonprofit financial statements. What they'll show is that the Internet Software Consortium spends 100% of its donations on engineering, with a 0% overhead rate. What this year's finances will show is that Vixie Enterprises subsidizes Bob Halley's entire salary for BIND work since we have not received sufficient donations to pay for it other- wise. (INN and DHCP will shortly be in the same boat.) So, sure, it's nice that Vixie Enterprises, my profitable company, can afford to pay engineers to work on things that don't bring in any money. But I'm keenly aware that Rick Adams' "UUNET Communications Services" (the old UUNET nonprofit) put $700K into ISC originally and that I have a lot of catching up to do from the years when ISC paid my mortgage while I worked on BIND. The thing that's bizarre is the AlterNIC/eDNS/intersteller community's continued inability to recognize that those of us who are involved in both for-profit and non-profit businesses have perfectly legitimate reasons for doing so. By the way doesn't it seem odd to write in 50 columns?
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Current thread:
- Re: Root Name Server Confederations, (continued)
- Re: Root Name Server Confederations Ben Black (May 20)
- Re: Root Name Server Confederations Adrian J Bool (May 21)
- Re: Root Name Server Confederations Sean M. Doran (May 22)
- Re: Root Name Server Confederations Randy Bush (May 22)
- Re: Root Name Server Confederations Vadim Antonov (May 21)
- Re: Root Name Server Confederations Sean M. Doran (May 22)
- RE: Root Name Server Confederations Jim Fleming (May 22)
- Re: Root Name Server Confederations Paul A Vixie (May 22)
- Re: Root Name Server Confederations Larry Vaden (May 22)
- flaming for dollars (Re: Root Name Server Confederations ) Paul A Vixie (May 22)
- Re: Root Name Server Confederations Marc Hurst (May 22)
- Re: Root Name Server Confederations Paul A Vixie (May 22)