From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 22:13:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4946F16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:13:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ritamari.vonostingroup.com (ip193-230.digitalrealm.net [216.144.193.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B4443D1F for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:13:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laszlof@tvog.net) Received: from adsl-68-72-248-38.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net ([68.72.248.38] helo=tvog.net) by ritamari.vonostingroup.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD)) id 1Czj2R-000HAk-Jw; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:13:23 -0500 Message-ID: <420D2E17.9040805@tvog.net> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:13:43 -0500 From: Frank Laszlo User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn References: <649200329.20050211081852@wanadoo.fr> <621dabed4fc2996ae4cb3a2929d6842c@chrononomicon.com> <420D24EE.40606@tvog.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ritamari.vonostingroup.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - tvog.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:13:46 -0000 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 4:34 PM -0500 2/11/05, Frank Laszlo wrote: > >> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >> >>> FreeBSD is driven by commercial matters. Many of the people that >>> work on it are paid to work on it by their employers, who are >>> using it commercially. >> >> >> I wouldnt say many, there are few commiters who are actually paid >> to work on it, most commiters/developers do it as a hobby. > > > ...but there is a mighty long list who would love to get paid to > work on FreeBSD! :-) Many of us are paid to work on some Linux > machines, and I think it would be much much nicer if we could > convince our employer to go with FreeBSD instead. > amen brotha. __________________________________________________ Frank Laszlo System Administrator The VonOstin Group Email: laszlof@tvog.net WWW: http://www.vonostingroup.com Mobile: 248-863-7584