Subject: Re: Helping The NetBSD Foundation (was Re: iso netbsd 1.5.3)
To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/01/2002 19:06:29
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Beaker wrote:
> Yes, they are "official" in that the NetBSD Project created the ISO's for
> them. The vendors are the ones who are actually burning the disks and sell
> them. Some of the vendors send a portion of the sale to The NetBSD
> Foundation, others don't.

As the announcement for the ones I have said, "Proceeds from CD-ROM
sales go to further promote the NetBSD project and the NetBSD
community."

See http://web.archive.org/web/19990427050632/http://www.netbsd.com/
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/1998/06/28/0000.html
and http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2000/12/04/0000.html

(They're "pressed" CD-ROMs, btw... not burned CD-Rs)