From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 3 11: 2:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E1814DC7 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 11:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac9.wam.umd.edu (root@rac9.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.149]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA26830; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 14:01:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac9.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac9.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA17705; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 14:01:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac9.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA17701; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 14:01:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac9.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 14:01:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver 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 In my own humble opinion, that's what will keep freebsd going longer than the others, volunteers do what they do because they want to, not because they are getting paid. Am I right? ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: AgRSkaterq | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= 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? > > jcm > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message