From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 08:22:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA11845 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 08:22:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA11838 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 08:22:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA21382; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:22:36 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:22:36 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199704181522.JAA21382@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dennis Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970418102217.00b5c400@etinc.com> References: <3.0.32.19970418102217.00b5c400@etinc.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.27 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Why is this "annoucement" such a big secret? Are you just not sure > yet? You complain about no commercial vendors not being interested in > FreeBSD, and then you give us this horsecrap about "wait 90 days for > the big unveiling..." You've obviously never dealt with other commercial vendors before. Right now as we speak my company is waiting with baited breath for two companies (Symantec and IONA) to release their next products, which are *critical* to our future success, since the # of bugs and missing features in the current crop make it useless for long-term success. All attempts to let us know *IF* our bugs are fixed, whether or not new features that exist in other vendors products, and anything that will help us to make decisions are not told. This is *common* with all organizations, at least with FreeBSD you get *hints* as to what's coming down the pike by looking at commit messages, with commercial companies you cross your fingers and hope for the best. Nate