From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 28 19:35:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F8716A4EA for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:35:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE05743D7D for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:35:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E56291B19; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:35:19 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 79118-04; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:35:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B79290C6D; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:35:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id B53B55CD74; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:16:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B20845CC40; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:16:55 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:16:55 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: Amitabh Kant In-Reply-To: <84b68b3d0607271127k175100d9sa3285fadc53e5369@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20060728161300.M27679@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060726164622.Q17979@ganymede.hub.org> <20060726201933.GH5284@jeeves.stilyagin.local> <20060726185018.BB70.GERARD@seibercom.net> <20060726231555.GB19000@gothmog.pc> <84b68b3d0607271127k175100d9sa3285fadc53e5369@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Nikolas Britton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:35:42 -0000 On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Amitabh Kant wrote: > I see the whole issue this way: companies are free to choose whether to > support FreeBSD or not, and I am free to choose/recommend their product > in my installations. It's only when we start to speak with our money > bags, that it will make commercial sense to them to support *BSD. And my point is that those not supporting FreeBSD already don't care, since as far as they are concerned, their is no market for them to be losing .... not buying their products isn't telling them anything they didn't already believe ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664