From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 12:45:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA28321 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA28307 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA05040; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:50:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970418154140.00a1eb38@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:41:43 -0400 To: "John S. Dyson" From: dennis Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 02:02 PM 4/18/97 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: >> >> Freebsd is *not* a commercial company and there is no benefit to secrecy. >> Why does a "free" OS have secrets? And this is not about fixing bugs, >> believe me I understand about bugs, its about having to reengineer >> freebsd based systems every couple of months..... >> > >Sorry, but we ARE dealing with VERY VERY VERY big commercial companies. >Much bigger than etinc... Doesn't mean that etinc isn't valuable, but >there IS stuff going on... > Ah, so FreeBSD is not as much of a Free O/S as we are led to believe? What we, as the public, see is the by-product of special projects for these "companies". NOW, I understand....the motivation has little to do with good of the general user base.... db