From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 07:46:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06087 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 07:46:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cam.grad.kiev.ua (grad-UTC-28k8.ukrtel.net [195.5.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06075 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 14:46:01 GMT (envelope-from Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA) Received: from Shevchenko.Kiev.UA (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cam.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA03475; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:44:51 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <353224E0.A362C6CD@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:44:49 +0300 From: Ruslan Shevchenko Reply-To: rssh@grad.kiev.ua Organization: GlavAPU X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: supporters@lemis.com CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's the economy, stupid! (Was: Re: New name?) References: <19980413132146.H28708@freebie.lemis.com> <199804130928.CAA03504@implode.root.com> <19980413192115.V28708@freebie.lemis.com> <19980413152229.47827@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org James Raynard wrote: > 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). > I am 100% agree with you. > James > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- @= //RSSH mailto:Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message