From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 6 14: 5:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.cybersurf.net (smtp1.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1393737B43F for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:05:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from 3web.net ([209.197.133.7]) by smtp1.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GBE2LO00.O2E for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:05:48 -0600 Received: by rockingd.calgary.ab.ca (EzMTS MTSAgent 1.22b Service) ; Fri, 06 Apr 01 15:04:52 -0600 for Received: from 3web.net (10.0.0.2) by rockingd.calgary.ab.ca (EzMTS MTSSmtp 1.23f Service) ; Fri, 06 Apr 01 09:10:04 -0600 for Received: by mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 6 Apr 2001 09:09:36 -0600 Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 09:09:35 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River Message-ID: <20010406090934.A149383@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Ted Mittelstaedt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010405161526.A1968@gforce.johnson.home> <000901c0be60$bc644680$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000901c0be60$bc644680$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from "Ted Mittelstaedt" on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:13:45PM X-Envelope-Receiver: , Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:13:45PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [snip] > As a server admin, I have complete confidence that if the FreeBSD core > project were asked to make a design decision on some aspect of FreeBSD, that > was a design decision that would either favor the desktop at the expense of > compromising system integrity, or favor system integrity at the expense of > the desktop, I am completely confident they would shaft the desktop every > time. > > With the Linux crowd, I don't have this confidence. I believe that if the > Linux community had to make a tradeoff between system integrity and > something that would improve the desktop, if some large commercial > organization was pushing them to shaft system integrity to gain something > for the desktop, they would do it. Would you give some concrete examples as to *how* one precludes the other. -- -duke Calgary, Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message