From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 10 12:57:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from camus.cybercable.fr (camus.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E5EB237BFB0 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:57:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Received: (qmail 21878469 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2000 20:57:28 -0000 Received: from d016.paris-30.cybercable.fr (HELO cybercable.fr) ([212.198.30.16]) (envelope-sender ) by camus.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Mar 2000 20:57:28 -0000 Message-ID: <38C960E2.3D58BD4B@cybercable.fr> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:53:54 +0100 From: "Thierry.herbelot" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Didier Derny , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead ? References: <42558.952720069@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > [SNIP] > > If you think it's possible to bend the FreeBSD project to anyone's > corporate will then you've never even come close to understanding who > we are or what we stand for. That's a shame since one would think 6 > years to be more than enough time to gain such an understanding. > > - Jordan Then, what are the benefits for both parties ? For the FreeBSD project : - many more supported platforms (Sparc, PowerPC, Arm ?) - better Intel SMP ? - new developpers ? - increased credibility via the support network of BSDi ? For BSD/OS : - better exposure thanks to OpenSource ? - Yahoo dollars ? - access to a greater community of **volunteer** testers ? TfH (This is absolutely not a flame bait : I'm very happy to imagine I could eventually get for-pay support for FreeBSD machines at work) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Thierry Herbelot /"\ ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN \ / AGAINST HTML MAIL & NEWS mailto:herbelot@cybercable.fr X PAS DE HTML http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot / \ DANS LES COURRIELS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message