Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:01:33 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, Don Wilde <Don@Silver-Lynx.com>, Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, core@daemonnews.org Subject: Re: [dn-core] Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders Stand Together" Message-ID: <20010518120133.G48909@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20010518190114.E7708@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:01:14PM %2B0930 References: <20010518112834.I55915@wantadilla.lemis.com> <002101c0df56$e6c62260$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20010518190114.E7708@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey said on May 18, 2001 at 19:01:14: > > On Thursday, 17 May 2001 at 21:56:29 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > In BSD-land, you don't have people making millions of dollars > > primariarly off of repackaging the BSD distribution. > > You don't in Linux-land either. That's why the Linux companies are > going broke. As for BSD-land: how about Apple? (They haven't made millions yet but they're certainly hoping to.) True, they didn't just repackage, but added a lot to BSD; but Red Hat added a lot to Linux, too. Red Hat made a point of releasing everything they did under a free license, but they didn't have to (and others like SuSE/Caldera don't. And Red Hat doesn't seem to be going broke, either.) I think there's only one reason why companies don't "suck in" (as Ted put it) and repackage the BSD systems, and that is that the BSD systems didn't get the same mindshare as linux did. It is also true that unlike linux, the BSD systems are complete systems by themselves, without the same need of repackaging; but they could still benefit from some of the end-user polish which linux has been getting, like the install process, autodetection of hardware, and so on. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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