From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 23 16:23:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (draco.over-yonder.net [198.78.58.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 195FF37B404 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:23:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id A5C4BFC2; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:23:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:23:33 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Laz Christian Peterson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Use of source/OS Message-ID: <20020123182333.E69736@over-yonder.net> References: <000001c1a456$50a38140$de00a8c0@archer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5-fullermd.1i In-Reply-To: <000001c1a456$50a38140$de00a8c0@archer>; from lpeterson@paravis.net on Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:38:33PM -0800 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Laz, > My name is Laz Peterson and I am with Paravis Technologies, a PC > manufacturing company located near San Francisco, CA. We are very > interested in using your operating system for all of our > workstation/client systems and also to build our network of servers. > One of our objectives is to build a network that has one 'HQ' based in > San Francisco, and almost 100,000 nodes based off of this OS spread all > throughout the western US. We want to use all new networking protocols > and architectures. We are currently working with a network service > provider in building a VPN over a fiber network. Sounds like some interesting stuff! > We would like to heavily customize the operating system and ultimately, > when we are out of beta stages, make the source open and allow everyone > to submit suggestions, inform of bugs and other flaws, and integrate > software of their own seamlessly. > > Who can I talk to about such business? I appreciate your time. Well, that would depend on what you want to talk about :) The license allows you to do all of this, so there's no troubles there. What specifically do you have questions about? Asking them here is a good way to at least get pointed in the right direction for an answer. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message