From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 3 9:57:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5518514F52 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 09:57:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02780; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 10:14:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 10:14:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd's life expectancy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -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