Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:02:58 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <199712040102.TAA04827@home.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <348708ea.1780558@mail.cetlink.net> from John Kelly at "Dec 4, 97 01:41:43 am"
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> On Wed, 3 Dec 1997 17:43:11 -0600 (CST), Kevin Day > <toasty@home.dragondata.com> wrote: > > >But you are correct in assuming that you are going to lose market share by > >waiting. > > How can you even call it a "market" when it's free? Walnut Creek is > never going to become a Microsoft by selling FreeBSD CD-ROMs for $39, > even if they sell a blue million of 'em. > No. I'm not talking about Walnut Creek. :) I just mean that if there wasn't a SMP kernel available anywhere, I would have moved to Linux, and probably switched all my machines. If I didn't feel comfortable paying with experimental software, I wouldn't have tried at all, and definately gone with Linux. I'm saying that I think it would be a shame to lose FreeBSD users because of a lack of features that other OS's have, and no-one has even given a rough date that these features will be available. Kevin
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