From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 08:59:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B207E16A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:59:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from faceman.servitor.co.uk (faceman.servitor.co.uk [80.71.15.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7606A43D49 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:59:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wiggy@servitor.co.uk) Received: from wiggy by faceman.servitor.co.uk with local (Exim 4.30) id 1CZmoV-000N3v-G4; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:59:47 +0000 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:59:47 +0000 From: Paul Robinson To: Brett Glass Message-ID: <20041202085947.GM68012@iconoplex.co.uk> References: <20041201165454.GJ68012@iconoplex.co.uk> <6.2.0.14.2.20041201122606.05bbd928@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20041201122606.05bbd928@localhost> Sender: Paul Robinson cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: And now, the Linux is near... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:59:16 -0000 On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:27:04PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > They're entitled to do it if they can persuade people that they have > added enough value for it to be worth the money. That's part of the > BSD philosophy: to allow people to make money from value-added > versions of the software. Oh no, I'm completely with you on the BSD thing and they have every right to. I was just commenting that it's funny they're selling DragonFly (that isn't production ready yet) without actually adding anything much. Come now, do you really think PHP/Perl/Python being installed as part of base is worth an extra $30? I'm not saying they haven't the right to do what they're doing - I'm just making fun of them for doing it the way they are doing it. If they had added a whole new package system, got tight integration between Desktop and OS, made it a comfortable consumer alternative to Linux/OS X, added in decent WINE support, not only had NDIS working but were able to exploit Windows audio and graphics drivers, and got SMP sorted, hell, *I'd* give them the $900 they're asking for Platinum. But they haven't done any of that it would seem, so I'm going to sit here and be all righteous and point and laugh and stuff. And because I'm both insecure and shallow, I'm going to invite you all to join in me doing so, thereby justifying my existence and enforcing my role within the peer group. Or something. :-) -- Paul Robinson http://www.iconoplex.co.uk/ "All I know is I'm not a Marxist" - Karl Marx