From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 3 12:57:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77AB014F5A for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 12:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1159.bossig.com [208.26.241.159]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24734; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 12:55:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37F7B4C7.441BE4BC@3-cities.com> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 12:55:51 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: J McKitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd's life expectancy References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > > > I don't really want to start a flame war, but... > > I just installed freebsd and i LOVE it. SHould i be concerned that > > freeBSD will die out someday, since it is not really a commerical > > enterprise, but is supported by volunteers? > > Considering that: > > 1) it has considerable commercial backing. (*) > 2) tripled userbase in the last year > 3) been around since '92/'93 > > no, i think FreeBSD will be around for a long time. People can spend a lot of time on a personal project and feel good. When you purchase something and feel ripped off, $98 USA can be too much. They may spend a man-month on something such as FreeBSD and feel good at spending the time. They don't have access to the commercial sources and get frustrated. They can't solve a problem and the large system vendors require a lot of testing time before they appear to get around_to_it. I use Windows and FreeBSD because I believe that it is easier to match a project to its needs than it is to force a project onto a system where there is no easy way to deal with it. Every system has an area where they do something better than the others do. In that area, they are the lead dog and everyone that has seen a dog sled race knows that the sceenery only changes for the lead dog :). I also think FreeBSD will be around for a long time. Kent > > -Alfred > > (*) many of the 'volunteers' are from companies that use FreeBSD > in thier own products, these companies would like FreeBSD to stick > around. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message