From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 08:46:25 2004 Return-Path: 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 DCB6716A4D1 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:46:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-67-119-53-122.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B557443D2F for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:46:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 48F2566ECD; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:46:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:46:24 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Robert Downes Message-ID: <20040109164624.GA72515@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040109004625.GA64145@xor.obsecurity.org> <3FFE920A.8000802@lineone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FFE920A.8000802@lineone.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the end of FreeBSD ?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:46:26 -0000 --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:35:38AM +0000, Robert Downes wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >Notice the difference between these two approaches? It means there's > >basically no chance that what happened with RedHat will ever happen to > >FreeBSD. > >=20 > > > No, but it surely is possible that the people that devote time to=20 > FreeBSD will be taken for granted, and will drift away from spending=20 > time on the project? It's surely possible, but with hundreds of active committers it's hardly likely to happen this way. > In fact, so disgusted am I with the thought of a Microsoft-dominated=20 > future, and so impressed am I with the FreeBSD system (and by that I=20 > mean the whole system, including the way code is offered up by=20 > volunteers who do it for the quality of the end result), that I'm going= =20 > to donate $25 to the FreeBSD Foundation right now. And I'm unemployed,=20 > that's how much I like FreeBSD. Thanks for the donation - every little bit helps! Kris --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE//trfWry0BWjoQKURAmAyAKCwkyuYRg6F/9gKVkegYCBqurXUpACdFCkc l0n2Fx9KUhH8IZ3HPrM2ZS8= =AsEc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l--