From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 8:55:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from imo-m08.mx.aol.com (imo-m08.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B873A37B405 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:55:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bsdguru@aol.com) Received: from Bsdguru@aol.com by imo-m08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id i.b0.1719021d (25308); Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:54:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Bsdguru@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:54:59 EDT Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral To: billf@mu.org, hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 139 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a message dated 07/09/2001 8:02:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, billf@mu.org writes: > BSDi really did make an impact. Just because you fail to see one doesn't mean > it didn't happen. You might want to read the cvs-all mailing list. If you'd > like, I can supply you with some procmail filters that will put all of the > commits of people who are/were supported by WC/BSDi/WRS into a folder called > 'direct-positive-result-of-bsdi-funding'. > > I'm also unclear on how you have installed FreeBSD in the past few years, > please clarify: > > [ ] purchased CD from BSDi > [ ] downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org (which BSDi was paying for) > [ ] downloaded from snapshot servers (partnership of USWest and WC/BSDi) > [ ] downloaded from FTP mirror (who got their data from ftp.freebsd.org..) > [ ] other (doesn't matter, the source that was used to generate the > binaries was stored on WC/BSDi equipment) > These mechanisms existed before without BSDi, so there was no "impact". Actually, ftp downloads got a LOT slower after BSDi took over, so i consider it a negative impact in that area. They made little difference as far as public perception is concerned. Obviously you got some dollars from them, which is good for you. BSDi wanted to put freebsd on the map, the same map as Linux. They failed. Come to terms with it. B To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message