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To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral
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Sergey Babkin wrote:
> It's not about protecting. It's about financiallly stimulating more
> organizations to fund developers to work on FreeBSD. The ISO image
> distribution rights don't have to be exchanged for money, they
> may just as well (and better) be exchanged for such support.

The most obvious way to do this, IMO, is to make FreeBSD
more accessiblle for use in commercial ventures, be it
embedded systems or as a backdrop for commercial software
using it as a platform on which some company puts their
own face forward.

This means making it substantially easier to do things
like building distributions with custom kernels, greatly
simplified "default installation" type things, etc..

-- Terry

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