Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:43:02 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wpeters@xylan.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products Message-ID: <35324096.1E365B2A@xylan.com> References: <351AEF41.4F70237E@xylan.com> <19980326210133.22728@snark.thyrsus.com> <13595.56491.667048.54397@salty.slcyp> <19980409121849.51551@snark.thyrsus.com> <13612.62597.457605.646138@salty.slcyp> <19980410164435.56510@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Thu, 9 April 1998 at 10:20:46 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > Eric S. Raymond writes: > >> Yes, please do. Bear in mind, however, who I'm trying to impress. It won't > >> help us to list anybody who's doing less than a million dollars a year in > >> business -- and I need to be able to *quote* that run rate on the page. > > > > Thanks for providing clarification. > > Have I missed the beginning of this thread, or is it the first we've > seen in -chat? In which case, permit me to aske what this is all > about. Sorry, I guess I kind of blind-sided the chat list here. Mr. Raymond is compiling a list of companies who successfully use open source products to do business with. The purpose of this list is to convince corporate USA that open source products, like FreeBSD, are reliable business tools, not just hacker playtoys. Obviously, most of us here feel this is true of FreeBSD, and I would hate to have it completely skipped on this list. Thanks for bringing this up, Greg. -- Wes Peters Who's going to save you Principal Engineer When you're a slave to Xylan Corporation A diamond as big as the Ritz wpeters@xylan.com -- Jimmy Buffett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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