From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 9 11:27:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from corserv.corserv.com (corserv.corserv.com [206.180.159.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1E437C4AB for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:27:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from klyons@corserv.corserv.com) Received: (from klyons@localhost) by corserv.corserv.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA02242; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:40:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from klyons) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:40:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Lyons Message-Id: <200006091840.NAA02242@corserv.corserv.com> To: giffunip@asme.org, klyons@corserv.corserv.com Subject: Re: BSDi acquisition of Telenet Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. The analogy is not the same. The comparison would be if VA had its own brand of Linux and wanted Dell or someone else to ship them hardware to test their brand of Linux. Most things occur for a reason. A thinking man is compelled to gather facts and evaluate outcomes so I do not think it is alarmist to ask these kinds of questions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message