Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 09:02:10 -0700 From: "L. Floyd" <lfloyd@sonic.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The issue of support Message-ID: <352F9402.64A0AEA5@sonic.net>
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I work for an environmental consulting firm that mainly uses PCs (Win 3.x and Win95) hooked to an NT server using Banyan. We have about 1,000 employees nationwide tied together by a WAN. The other day I was talking to one of the IS support people about alternative OSs. I was astonished (at first) to hear that our Corp IS folks would never consider using an operating system that is free. They feel better about spending money for the product, especially if it has good support. They are savy enough or experienced enough to figure out problems on their own. So, in the case of FreeBSD, "support" may invite more corporate users to consider using it.... perhaps. (Of course I did mention that there was massive support via the Internet, but that didn't fly.) - Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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