Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 09:43:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: lfloyd@sonic.net Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, supporters@nanyang-computer.com Subject: Re: The issue of support Message-ID: <19980412094352.28153@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <352F9402.64A0AEA5@sonic.net>; from L. Floyd on Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 09:02:10AM -0700 References: <352F9402.64A0AEA5@sonic.net>
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On Sat, 11 April 1998 at 9:02:10 -0700, L. Floyd wrote: > 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.) You may have missed the announcement I sent out yesterday. I've set up a mailing list to discuss the matter of commercial support at supporters@nanyang-computer.com. If you want to sign up, send mail to majordomo@nanyang-computer.com with 'subscribe supporters' in the body of the message. You raise an interesting point: should a commercially supported version of FreeBSD cost money (not much, but enough)? How about 'FeeBSD'? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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