Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:06:15 +0100 (BST) From: "Walter C. Pelissero" <walter@pelissero.org> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: is distribution sinking? Message-ID: <200105141406.PAA08601@pelissero.org>
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I'm writing this as a sort of open letter to the FreeBSD community because I belive my concerns may be shared by a big part of it. Last year I decided to discontinue my subscription to the FreeBSD CDROM. I've been subscribed since almost the first CDROM issue (on single media at that time). My decision wasn't easy and didn't come out of technical or religious motivations. It was mainly bad customer support. Actually, the problems arised one day when I received a letter stating that Walnut Creek had problems with my credit card and they where expecting the payment of the last shippment (items I never received). Well, not a big deal. I mailed the required informations and asked informations about the never-delivered CDs. No answer. Ok, I assumed the subscription would come in effect starting with the next issue. Nope. Since then I never received anything (but I haven't been charged for anything) and all my e-mails have been ignored. Ok, I let my subscription got frogotten. Recently I tried to buy a 4.3 distribution from a local store (London, UK) and while they had all the releases up to 4.1 they told me they had problems with the last one. They suspect this is due to the recent take over of BSDi (once again). I don't know if FreeBSD is distributed by anyone else but WC/BSDi. My impression is that currently the FreeBSD distribution is slowly sinking. In the meanwhile it turns up that NetBSD and OpenBSD CD distributions are more easily available than FreeBSD so I see myself forced to switch to one of them. -- walter pelissero http://www.pelissero.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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