Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:35:16 +0200 From: deeptech71@gmail.com To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsdmall.com prices Message-ID: <46DEF6E4.4000303@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CF854D52-A58F-4B69-9E35-7D82BBFDE282@gmail.com> References: <46DBF48E.7030806@gmail.com> <46DDA898.31626.39714C46@dan.langille.org> <46DEDCD8.3020605@gmail.com> <CF854D52-A58F-4B69-9E35-7D82BBFDE282@gmail.com>
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Michael Hernandez wrote: > > On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:44 PM, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hi Matt, I'm wondering how many people are behind the Mall, what the >> order statistics are, and how much the income is. If the Mall is just >> a secondary job, and you donate a considerable excess amount, then I >> have to respect, but also criticize that. The good thing is about >> *you* supporting the Project, is that *you* can chose what parts of >> development to encourage. If you donate raw cash, they will spend it >> on ice cream ;), if you donate a piece of hardware, they will utilize >> that thing for testing, which is good if your company relies heavily >> on FreeBSD driver efficiency and stability for that type of piece. >> However, if you really encourage advertising FreeBSD, you should make >> promo stuff as cheap as possible. > > All the while you can still download the releases for free so what are > you complaining about anyway? At first I thought you were just asking a > question and trying to gain insight but now I see you're just trolling. > I don't really understand what you are trying to gain through this > ranting. And I actually was. I don't know where you detect offensive speech. You must be misunderstanding something. Or I don't care how you look at my messages, even it it's like This is an unmoderated freebsd-chat, and I'm trolling all over it, sue me... If you want to use FreeBSD, you can, and for free. Same for > NetBSD, OpenBSD, various distributions of Linux...... what's the > problem? You can't realistically expect to get everything for no cost. > Or maybe you need clarification between the terms - Free does not > necessarily mean "at no cost to you" (although as you know you can still > download and use FreeBSD at virtually no cost to you....) Thanks, but that was evident to me. I may be a FreeBSD newbie, but I'm not THAT much of a newbie.
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