From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 07:23:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA01405 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 07:23:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk (jraynard.demon.co.uk [158.152.42.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01384 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 14:23:34 GMT (envelope-from james@jraynard.demon.co.uk) Received: (from james@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03629; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:22:30 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from james) Message-ID: <19980413152229.47827@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:22:29 +0100 From: James Raynard To: supporters@lemis.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: It's the economy, stupid! (Was: Re: New name?) Reply-To: supporters@lemis.com References: <19980413132146.H28708@freebie.lemis.com> <199804130928.CAA03504@implode.root.com> <19980413192115.V28708@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <19980413192115.V28708@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 07:21:15PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 07:21:15PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I > think people are somewhat overemphasizing this issue, which is not > really important to the support issues (why isn't anybody discussing > them?). Exactly. I'm amazed no-one seems to have even asked, let alone addressed the following obvious questions (at least, they seem obvious to me): 1. Who are Nan Yang? 2. What exactly are they looking for? 3. How serious are they? 4. What kind of customers do they have? 5. How much time would they expect people to spend on working for them? 6. What (if any) is the difference between working for Nan Yang and being a contractor/consultant for a "normal" agency? 7. What's the best way of getting in touch with them? Instead, we have had a discussion about what name we should put on a hypothetical commercial release, containing some unspecified "bonus" software that no-one appears to have actually written yet, which has finally descended into an absurd row over whether FreeBSD is allowed to change its name or not. I really hope these are just symptoms of initial over-excitement and not an indication of the direction this is going to go. :-( (Yes, I'm excited about this as well, but I'd like to see something actually happen, rather than an initial rash of unrealistic plans followed by complete apathy). James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message