From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 31 23:15:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71AE716A419 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:15:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists-fbsd@shadypond.com) Received: from mx-outbound01.easydns.com (mailout1.easydns.com [205.210.42.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4869113C455 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:15:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists-fbsd@shadypond.com) Received: from lilypad.shadypond.com (69-12-173-117.static.humboldt1.com [69.12.173.117]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx-outbound01.easydns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662F14823B for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:14:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from slider.shadypond.com (slider.shadypond.com [192.168.1.11]) by lilypad.shadypond.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D40BB841 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:15:22 +0000 (UTC) From: Pollywog To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:14:40 +0000 References: <10f7864f0712311010x2497409ava350991ccebf3ae2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <10f7864f0712311010x2497409ava350991ccebf3ae2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712312314.42749.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Subject: Re: corporate backers of freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:15:24 -0000 On Monday 31 December 2007 18:10:55 Gary Smithe wrote: > > In short, here's my question: > > Canonical, RedHat, IBM, Novell, and a slew of others are funding / > supporting Linux development and pushing some of that development into > the free community, so that all can benefit from full-time developers > and the money that supports them. This is true but on the flip side, Linux has become a target of the patent trolls (Microsoft and SCO to name two) and thus far they have left FreeBSD alone. This was one thing that prompted me to try FreeBSD and to not depend exclusively on one OS solution. I am just an individual user but this was still important to me. BTW you may have read that SCO has been delisted by NASDAQ :)