From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 11 17:14:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05190 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 17:14:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05162 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 17:13:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA21686; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 09:43:53 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA22310; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 09:43:52 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980412094352.28153@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 09:43:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: lfloyd@sonic.net Cc: FreeBSD Chat , supporters@nanyang-computer.com Subject: Re: The issue of support References: <352F9402.64A0AEA5@sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <352F9402.64A0AEA5@sonic.net>; from L. Floyd on Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 09:02:10AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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