From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 3 10:21:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27541 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 10:21:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27536 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 10:21:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13605; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 10:10:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Brett Glass cc: Nicholas Charles Brawn , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 Oct 1998 10:58:39 MDT." <4.1.19981003105717.041c3760@mail.lariat.org> Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 10:10:20 -0700 Message-ID: <13601.907434620@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to cut into Walnut Creek's > sales, in effect hurting its current efforts. I suspect that the reason > there have not been alternative distributions (other than a token effort > by Cheap Bytes) is that people do not want to do this. I doubt that any businessman who saw a buck in this would have such qualms at all. There is already a very large set of individuals out there who feel not the slightest allegiance to Walnut Creek CDROM and would go out and start their own distribution in a heartbeat if it weren't also for the fact that they knew how much work it was. Again, you seem to have a lot of general accusations to make but nothing more concrete than "hire a marketing guy and give him some money" to make as a suggestion, a pretty poor condensation of what's got to be several pages of text by now. And yes, we have just recently hired a marketing guy and given him some money, as I already stated in another posting, and your unwillingness to even give him time to succeed before going for Walnut Creek CDROM's jugular does you no credit. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message