From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 9 18:26: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC26F152B3; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:26:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA11580; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:25:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Nik Clayton Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Market share and platform support In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Sep 1999 08:18:27 BST." <19990909081827.A39602@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 18:25:22 -0700 Message-ID: <11576.936926722@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 That's already happened several times, with CheapBytes, "Turbo FreeBSD" (a Pacific HiTech product) and the combined BSD distributions from InfoMagic. In all cases, Walnut Creek CDROM's response was to do nothing whatsoever because the competition wasn't quite direct enough to worry about. Had it been direct enough to worry about, I'm sure they'd have done something like lower their prices or seek to differentiate their product in other ways. Again, competition within the lines of the BSD license has always been allowed and Walnut Creek CDROM is a business, after all. What they would do in every conceivable situation is, of course, impossible to say. All I can do is point to what they've done in the past and their conviction that FreeBSD should stay free. Nobody wants to shoot the golden goose! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message