From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 18 1:47:13 2002 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 8C5DD37B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 01:47:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC86243E75 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 01:47:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id gAI9l9929325 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:47:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <06b601c28ee7$76a3c8b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Chat" References: <20021117215730.W23359-100000@hub.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:47:09 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marc writes: > So, you are saying we should sit quietly back > and accept the instabilities? I'm saying that you don't really have much choice, unless you start paying people to work on the OS. For most people, earning money to pay the rent comes first, and volunteer work comes second. Additionally, in volunteer work, people tend to concentrate on what they enjoy, and not always on what must be done. > Man, will that ever get FreeBSD into the corporate IT > departments ... I've pointed out this problem before. It exists for all open-source software. That's one reason why corporations still pay money for proprietary software, even when they can get potentially better software for free. Knowing the the software was free won't help if it crashes at 3 AM and there's nobody to call for support. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message