From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Sep 21 14:24:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74EA037B422; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA23685; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:21:49 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAJjaabU; Thu Sep 21 14:21:36 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17535; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:24:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200009212124.OAA17535@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Just Imagine.. To: jswarner@uswest.net (Joe Warner) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:24:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <39C9F55E.E3D6917D@uswest.net> from "Joe Warner" at Sep 21, 2000 05:47:42 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I guess the main question is, would the BSD community benefit from big > corporate backing? If so or not, why? Yes, but only by a hardware company. A software company is a competitor. See the NT vs. VMS vs. Ultrix/DEC UNIX/TRU64 history. In particular, note the extra cost associated with the SRM, which was pretty much nothing more than protectionism of the NT and VMS side of things, for internal political resons having nothing to do with anything other than a supression of internal competition ("all the oars pulling in the same [wrong] direction"). IBM's "backing" of Linux at this point is mostly marketing, not integration into core products, due to intellectual property dillution fears. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message