Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:18:27 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Market share and platform support Message-ID: <19990909081827.A39602@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <7196.936853710@localhost>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 10:08:30PM -0700 References: <4.2.0.58.19990908203747.0463bd20@localhost> <7196.936853710@localhost>
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Brett, Jordan,
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 10:08:30PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > Want me to do that? Then help to ensure that I can go ahead
> > with plans to release a high-end FreeBSD distribution. One of the things
> > the investors are holding out on is that they MUST be assured that
> > Walnut Creek does not and will not control development. Which,
>
> There are several organizations who want to create "high end
> distributions" at this stage, and some of them have waved non-trivial
> amounts of money in my face in the discussions we've had to date -
<snip>
Could you do us a favour, and get on the phone to one another, or something,
and sort this out? Or, assuming Brett's got these investors lined up, sort
out a 'proper' business meeting and resolve them face to face. From this
vantage point as an interested observer you both seem to be arguing past one
another, each addressing points that the other almost, but didn't quite,
make.
FWIW, and from this side of the pond, Brett's raised a couple of interesting
points re: Walnut Creek and their 'control' of FreeBSD, and what would happen
if, hypothetically, some other group were to put together a competing
distribution, and these points have occasionally cropped up at UK User
Group meetings. I know I'd like to know what WCs official stance on this
is.
N
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