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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 1995 01:48:05 +0100
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
To:        Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ISP state their FreeBSD concerns 
Message-ID:  <199511140048.BAA00603@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:51:48 %2B0200." <199511131351.PAA20135@shadows.cs.hut.fi> 

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> From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi>

> A commercial support provider for *BSD* would also do a lot of good.  I
> don't mean one-man shops.  There are people who will never buy anything
> without a support contract.

This theme was mentioned a couple of months back. 
At some stage it _may_ make hard business sense
to spend time incorporating a company, & spend money marketing support services,
however it will cost serious money & time to start, & I think it'll probably
be best not to be formally linked to the before-discussed FreeBSD Inc, 
as it will likely have divergent/divisive aims from most FreeBSD people,
(like not having fun, doing lots of tedious work, making money, & even using
other OS's too where business dictates).

Running a company is not a democratic process, & involves much tedious
filling with the authorities, Oh, & we have a world wide presence,
world wide spread of laws, & a world of currencies.

If/when it happens, I think it may likely evolve from geographically
co-located small groups of fellow FreeBSDers,
( because remote working over the Internet on development & debug tasks
is not that easy, many customer systems hide behind firewalls).

Those of us seriously interested in this minority topic
might be best off having our own mail list, maybe
	commercial@freebsd.org
it'd be a register & litmus test of interest.
PS No way should it be called
	support@freebsd.org
else we'd be flooded with people who want free support,
& one can't pay the rent on free support.

Julian H. Stacey      EMAIL: jhs@freebsd.org  WEB: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
TEL:  +49.89.268616   FAX:   +49.89.2608126   CONSULTANT: Internet, Unix, C
POST:  Vector Systems Ltd, Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany.



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