From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 14:13:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEDA316A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:13:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7896D43D2F for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:13:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kjelderg@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so422902rnf for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 06:13:00 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=pIDWfnwAXllGAlqEhwEkwJ3iN+Gjrf3dYAsoWZKZj0+nxMtW8IGFeBNB/TPdSnBDBcYNnxo6paqhT05ABg6f3TnRTTwvabUuOQZSA8Jzxqo1RaWM4roSwlrqK4Hzmz/CakbiF/1dNepc5QWlPQlm45MelKLX2hUnUL8fM4mUFLk= Received: by 10.38.104.47 with SMTP id b47mr260470rnc; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 06:12:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.101.19 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 06:12:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 08:12:59 -0600 From: Eric Kjeldergaard To: Robert Marella In-Reply-To: <1108178611.46376.17.camel@p4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200502112325.j1BNPw201164@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <1108168477.45718.19.camel@p4> <1108178611.46376.17.camel@p4> cc: Jerry McAllister cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Eric Kjeldergaard List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:13:00 -0000 > Agreed, but have you never inherited control over a system with hardware > you did not purchase? Yup, but I've simply not gotten unsupported hardware. In the many computers I've tried, not a single piece of hardware unsupported, from network cards to raid cards, wireless and video, serial cards and etc... > Growth is a natural thing. If we have 2% of the market and we grow 5% > but the market grows 20%, we loose share. Vendors look at the market. We > need to capture a larger share to make them sit up and take notice. Right, but since the key to our advertisement is the exclusivity of who hears about us, we'd be getting the finest 2% available, and I, for one, am plenty happy with that. I'm perfectly content with the 2% that understand that closed-source, proprietary, sub-standard operating systems are inferior regardless of how large their userbase is. -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.