Re: fund raising drive for Mac G5 support; pledges

[Jonathan Walther <krooger_(_at_)_debian_(_dot_)_org>]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:20:41PM +0100, Ed White wrote:
> During the EuroBSDCon 2004 in Germany someone reading this interview
>
> http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/5302
>
> told Jordan K. Hubbard (manager of BSD Technologies for Apple Computer Inc.) 
> about Dale Rahn's answers. He said he wasn't aware of any request for 
> cooperation / hardware / contribution from OpenBSD folks.
>
> It seems you should at least try to ask.

That isn't what Jordan Hubbard told me a couple days ago on the phone.
He said that Apple management is extremely hard to get free-will
donations out of, even for his own FreeBSD project.  There has to be a
clear ROI for Apple to be willing to "donate" anything.  And it has to
be very specific, not nebulous "maybe..."

Jonathan

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