From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 8 05:02:29 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2693B0A for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 05:02:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alogt.com (alogt.com [69.36.191.58]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C905D85E for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 05:02:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alogt.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=Jp4/zs4clES7E2F8o1nzrHRg0WMqlnCEjBgrHdlxcZg=; b=sg206W6ovKJ89MK/GVgELWpzSgqyC/ReJU62ZwGRRocT3X6k4KI65R1k1wY+QlUh7xwgKr2qxYIs3PyNzrS9KLkkkZvyQfcRZLfdRqPGj3kOfHP2VGCNc2ySIDRNkYq5i0DwrnfUfDvXalEzIdeVZdiVPOhCKZLb7x8K8pDWZBg=; Received: from [114.121.160.126] (port=35888 helo=B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com) by sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1YfgO0-0022ad-Eg; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:10:42 -0600 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 11:10:25 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky To: Allen Subject: Re: FreeBSD ZFS advocacy Message-ID: <20150408111025.6891a6f6@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <14c914f65d0.277d.49425171f56f22d4251074c8012c3090@comcast.net> References: <20150330085304.GB14538@apple.rat.burntout.org> <5519B3C0.70202@gmail.com> <14c914f65d0.277d.49425171f56f22d4251074c8012c3090@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - alogt.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net: authenticated_id: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: Advocacy FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 05:02:30 -0000 Hi, On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:37:25 -0400 Allen wrote: > > > You could also try contacting iX directly. If your company likes > > proprietary solutions, then iX can sell you something that looks to > > management like a proprietary system, even if it doesn't to the > > people actually using it... > > Hahaha! I'm sorry to waste peoples tome with basically a giggle, but > when I read that line, I just instantly had a mental image of the > usual pointy haired moron managers all sitting around a boardroom > table saying to one person that FreeBSD being free must have no real > value, and then 5 minutes later someone showing then the same OS but > with a price tag from a company and then them all shaking their heads > yes in agreement because the sticker for the price tag is shiny and > looks good. Lol, sorry about the basically useless reply but it > brightened my day and maybe by pointing it out, it may brighten > someone elses day as well. a long time ago, I did some work for a e-commerce site. Huge machines with the need for a huge firewall. So, the people purchased a huge firewall which was practically a FreeBSD machine based on standard hardware. The client was happy to pay roughly ten times the price of the plain hardware. Erich