From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 18:47:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DB5106564A for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:47:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerry@seibercom.net) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261738FC08 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:47:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxl31 with SMTP id 31so2327990yxl.13 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:47:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.164.15 with SMTP id m15mr6762908ybe.245.1311101274113; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (twdp-174-109-142-001.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.142.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c63sm23966yhe.74.2011.07.19.11.47.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio (zeus [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jerry@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3RJVk00phpz2CG4g for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:47:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:47:51 -0400 From: Jerry To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20110719144751.01beb9c6@scorpio> In-Reply-To: References: <20110717071059.25971662@scorpio> <4E25C70C.8000308@dracoquies.us> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:47:56 -0000 On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:19:04 -0400 Michael Sierchio articulated: > IMHO what has helped Linux is the existence of commercial > distributions with support - Red Hat, SUSE, etc. The only attempts to > do this for BSD have been undercapitalized and/or half-hearted. Yes, it is hard to sell a car sans support. Giving the new owner an instruction manual and telling him to fix it himself is not an ideal business model. > But I find the general premise of the discussion to be - how to say > this politely? - stupid. Ah, such fine manners. > Things that interest me are relevant, things that don't presumably > are not, until they are. Now that I will agree with, unless I don't. :) -- Jerry ✌ jerry+fbsd@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html