"You need to realize that your fundamental request is for people who are giving up their free time to do something interesting to change their plans so that you

"You need to realize that your fundamental request is for people who are giving up their free time to do something interesting to change their plans so that you can run your enterprise while providing no help or financial incentive." ... "I can't even really tell what your proposal is besides changing release frequency. What are _you_ willing to do to support that?" ... I offered $50k to run 9.x up to 9.15: "... I can contribute USD $10k per year that this course was followed, or $50k over five years. We can contribute some hardware, hosting and bandwidth as well."[1] As I said in this old, old thread: "I'm not a FreeBSD developer and I have little use for either CURRENT or STABLE. I'm saying that I need a major release to have an effective lifetime longer than two years." ... and in anticipation of your 2020 response, I direct you to the FreeBSD handbook, which explicitly states: "This is still a development branch, however, and this means that at any given time, the sources for FreeBSD-STABLE may or may not be suitable for any particular purpose. It is simply another engineering development track, NOT A RESOURCE FOR END-USERS."[2] FWIW, we have also offered and paid several FreeBSD development bounties since 2005.[3][4] [1] https://0x.co/TCZM6C https://0x.co/TCZM6C [2] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/current-stable.html https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/current-stable.html [3] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2007-April/001127.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2007-Ap... [4] https://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/01/64bit-freebsd-quotas.html https://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/01/64bit-freebsd-...