Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:08:17 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> To: Kevin Lyons <klyons@corserv.corserv.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDi acquisition of Telenet Message-ID: <39405FA1.5636EBDC@asme.org> References: <200006090054.TAA01053@corserv.corserv.com>
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Kevin Lyons wrote:
>
> Is anyone concerned about the impact of BSDi's acquisition of Telenet
> systems? Ordinarily, I doubt it would matter, but taken in conjunction
> with the merger of BSDi and Walnut Creek, one wonders if hardware
> manufacturers such as Dell, Micron, etc. will be as willing to provide
> FreeBSD Inc. with sample/development hardware.
>
What BSDi is clearly trying to do is to broaden their revenue sources.
The relation with other hardware distributors will continue as always: I
haven't heard any Linux distributor complain about VA Linux.
IMHO, you are being an alarmist. Many companies are, in theory, making
money out of free software, BSDi is taking some part of the cake while
it can, and I think that's good.
cheers,
Pedro.
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