From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 17:51:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 664) id 21EAB37B401; Wed, 7 May 2003 17:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:51:05 -0700 From: David O'Brien To: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" Message-ID: <20030507175104.A47906@hub.freebsd.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from john.cagle@hp.com on Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:31:17PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-RC Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 00:51:05 -0000 On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:31:17PM -0500, Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote: > FreeBSD is not currently an officially supported operating system, but ... > To provide official "tier-one" support (drivers for advanced features, > management agents, deployment software, regression testing, customer > support, services, etc.) would be very costly, and, at this time, the > FreeBSD market share numbers don't support that level of investment. This is open source -- you provide the docs we supply the drivers. Or is the cost of the packets carring the PDF files too expensive? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)