Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:06:32 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: jbryant@tfs.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970414100629.00b4a100@etinc.com>
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At 10:13 PM 4/13/97 -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: >In reply: >> At 06:27 PM 4/13/97 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: >> >> >> >> The problem with funding fundamentals like networking is that some >> banana with >> >> a different philosophy is likely to either undo your changes or make other >> >> changes >> >> that compromise it. You'd have to maintain it yourself to make it >> worthwhile. >> >> >> >That is where the core team management comes in. A coherent core team >> >allows for review and the backing out of bogus changes. >> >> *coherent* is one thing....having a focus is another (theres that word >> again!). Since >> there is no clear goal, the future is a fog, which makes Freebsd >> undesirable in >> the long run for major endeavors. >> >> db > >[retreiveing two cents from pocket and tossing it into the hat] > >This is exactly the kind of bs discussion that has kept US from going >out and getting commercial support for FreeBSD... > >Case in point... Lin[s]ux... Ten-Twenty different versions, bad >networking, even worse VM... Vendors love it!! Why? Hmmmm... Because you are very wrong. There are hardly any commercial vendors with kernel drivers...virtually all of the hardware is non-vendor created and I promise you....vendors DONT love it. I hate it myself. Cyclades and ET are pretty much it. Linux has more commercial applications because a LOT MORE PEOPLE use it (which if you check my original list was #1). If you dont create a market for commercial vendors they will not come, if you do they will, registry or not. Its very simple. db
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