From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 8 20: 0:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from c1mailgw1.prontomail.com (c1mailgw1.prontomail.com [208.178.29.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9958237B614 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:00:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from c1mail01.prontomail.com (208.178.29.101) by c1mailgw1.prontomail.com (NPlex 4.5.049) id 393D754C00056447 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:00:21 -0700 Received: by c1mail01.prontomail.com (NPlex 2.0.123); Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:00:16 -0700 Received: from 200.41.108.77 by SmtpServer for ; Fri, 09 Jun 2000 03:00:18 +0000 Message-ID: <39405FA1.5636EBDC@asme.org> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:08:17 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Lyons Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDi acquisition of Telenet References: <200006090054.TAA01053@corserv.corserv.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message