First, my suggestions above were made originally in January of 2012, at which time I committed $50,000 to the FreeBSD project in return for adopting something like those suggestions.
So your "put your money where your mouth is" trump card was not quite what you thought it was. Thanks for playing.
Second, I reject the notion that nobody but core developers and big business has useful viewpoints as to the direction of the FreeBSD project (or any project, for that matter). You think you know what kind of resources you are talking about, above, when you speak of developing and maintaining a custom branch and backporting drivers, etc. Take that number and triple it and that's a starting point for the true amount of cost something like that would take in a real organization with real HR and QA and benefits and shareholders and a functioning board, etc. ...
... and that's out of the realm of even mid sized shops.
So your "put your money where your mouth is" trump card was not quite what you thought it was. Thanks for playing.
Second, I reject the notion that nobody but core developers and big business has useful viewpoints as to the direction of the FreeBSD project (or any project, for that matter). You think you know what kind of resources you are talking about, above, when you speak of developing and maintaining a custom branch and backporting drivers, etc. Take that number and triple it and that's a starting point for the true amount of cost something like that would take in a real organization with real HR and QA and benefits and shareholders and a functioning board, etc. ...
... and that's out of the realm of even mid sized shops.