From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 07:50:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD3016A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:50:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (ussenterprise.ufp.org [208.185.30.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A1E343D31 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:50:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bicknell@ussenterprise.ufp.org) Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (bicknell@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i07Foj2x077926 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:50:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bicknell@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id i07FoiJl077925 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:50:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:50:44 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040107155044.GA76568@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <79B4EAB03B5E4649A740A8C1452F606435AF1B@y6001a.umb.corp.umb.com> <3FFAF1D4.4000709@iconoplex.co.uk> <3FFB4499.3050301@iconoplex.co.uk> <20040107145744.GA74418@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <3FFC2444.8090803@FreeBSDsystems.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FFC2444.8090803@FreeBSDsystems.COM> Organization: United Federation of Planets X-PGP-Key: http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Subject: Re: Where is FreeBSD going? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:50:47 -0000 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message written on Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:22:44AM -0500, Lanny Baron = wrote: > Just what we are wondering. Where is all the FreeBSD community support=20 > for a Server company that fully supports FreeBSD? It certainly is not in= =20 > this letter. Disclaimer: Until this message I didn't know www.FreeBSDsystems.com existed, and I know nothing about them other than what the front page of their web server has on it. I believe you've missed the point completely. Building a new server farm is an important, but specialized niche. Sure I can buy hardware that is only 100% fully supported. I may have to pay a little more, but to some degree that's ok. The point is that the person trying FreeBSD at home (where Linux is a competitor), or wanting to put it on their desktop at work (where IT just gave them a PC with windows, and the boss will let them run FreeBSD, but won't buy yet another PC to do it) suffer. OS's like FreeBSD and Linux make their way into the enterprise from the ground up, running on the old leftover box in the corner. So, do I support companies like (but not specifically) www.freebsdsystems.com, sure. Does that mean the freebsd development team can forget about all the other hardware out there in massive quantities, heck no. --=20 Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE//CrUNh6mMG5yMTYRAn3xAJ9dFwJ59taAZOeQC9h0+mdz/4TdCwCghkJx fKSb2sM2/Ay1+eTEvIpUfpk= =hoTW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--