Date: Wed, 6 Mar 96 9:18:49 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers; FreeBSD), aho@hyh.pc.my (Anthony Ho) Subject: Re: FreeBSD or BSDI Message-ID: <199603060822.JAA17037@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <199603051906.OAA08237@etinc.com>; from "dennis" at Mar 5, 96 2:06 pm
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> Julian Elischer writes... > >> >> jkh writes... >> >>> Evaluate them both and see what you think. >>> >> My personal idea woudl be, "As FreeBSD is Free, you lose nothing by trying >> it out, and if you don't like it you can then pay for BSDI. Most of what you >> learned on FreeBSD will be relevant for FeeBSD^H^H^H^H^H^H BSDI. > > Only the code is free. The installation costs money. The use of the serial > line while your trying it costs money. The time it takes to learn how to > set up and go through the unavoidable setup problems costs money. > The cost of time exceeds the cost of the software by a factor of 10 for > BSDI. Its very expensive to chose the wrong product even if its free > initially. Well, I understand your statements individually, and I agree with most of them (not, a priori, with the ten-to-1 relationship between time and money--how did you calculate that?), but I don't understand what you're trying to say. Does this relate specifically to F[r]eeBSD? Greg
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