From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 9 16:41:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963E137C256 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:41:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA12137; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:41:13 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000609173938.0495cd80@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 17:41:10 -0600 To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Kevin Lyons From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: BSDi acquisition of Telenet Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <394155AC.B0B4FDBA@asme.org> References: <200006091840.NAA02242@corserv.corserv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:38 PM 6/9/2000, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >OK, I exaggerated on the "alarmist" issue, I simply couldn't find >another term. > >Think in terms of business, the new BSDi has to compete against the many >linux distributions and "added value" companies. The BSD license is a >good advantage in their business, but since they are planning to keep >the development open they need other fields to keep their profit. Precisely. And one way to do this is to provide physical hardware that has intrinsic value and embodies expertise. Being a custom system house is not an easy row to hoe, but there's certainly no reason why BSDi shouldn't do it. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message