Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:45:03 -0600 (MDT) From: "Jeremy D. Pavleck" <judge@Pavleck.Com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Verio mover to FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0308291044290.48392-100000@kashmir.thend.org> In-Reply-To: <20030829163837.GA45517@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Very well put! Almost sounds like a greeting card from Hallmark :-p ****************** Jeremy D. Pavleck jeremy@pavleck.com On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:35:46AM -0400, Jastonephd@aol.com wrote: > > Why if Verio has moved our sites to you, are they still charging us $6,000 > > per annum for hosting? > > What is the viability of this server? > > With the CA economy in dire straits, how secure is your future? > > FreeBSD isn't a for-profit corporation in the usual sense. It's > rather a world-wide collection of volunteers with a common aim: to > produce the FreeBSD operating system. As such it is much more > resilient than any business. Furthermore, as FreeBSD is an open > source operating system, there's no possibility that the operating > system itself will disappear, even if the current project membership > does decide to give up and do something else. There are hundreds of > thousands of copies of the FreeBSD source code all round the Internet, > and the BSD license terms specifically allow any usage of that code, > commercial or otherwise so long as the appropriate copyright > statements are maintained. > > Neither is the project particularly centered in or dependent on > California. True, there are quite a few FreeBSD committers resident in > that state, and major parts of the FreeBSD web infrastructure are > located there. Not all, however. For example, one of the servers > that makes up ftp.freebsd.org is actually located in Denmark. If > California were to finally fall into the sea, the FreeBSD project > would still go on. > > Verio may have moved their hosting business to use FreeBSD, which will > certainly have reduced their per-server licencing costs, yes. > However, that would only have been a small part of their cost base > before moving over. The majority of the cost will be the running > expenses of the hosting centers and the cost of bandwidth, both of > which remain unchanged. If you don't think you're getting value for > money, then you can vote with your feet, or threaten to, and see if > they'll negociate. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK >
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