From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 14 21:25:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA07970 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:25:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from pdx1.world.net (pdx1.world.net [192.243.32.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA07965 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:25:01 -0800 (PST) From: proff@suburbia.net Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by pdx1.world.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA10731 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:25:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4784 invoked by uid 110); 15 Jan 1997 05:24:28 -0000 Message-ID: <19970115052428.4783.qmail@suburbia.net> Subject: Re: Who wants code development & validation tools for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <7388.853285745@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 14, 97 03:49:05 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:24:28 +1100 (EST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > It's also hard for me to overstate the importance of attracting > commercial software vendors to FreeBSD. It's a little bit like > choosing a restaurant you've never been to before: If you see a lot of > people inside already eating then you're far more inclined to go in > and join them. If the restaurant is empty, then you figure that > something must be wrong with the food (even though it may be > excellent) and you stay away. Please don't let that happen to > FreeBSD; > > Thanks! > > Jordan You are right of course, however I feel that the larger problem is that some of the people who first arrived in the restaurant won't let anyone else in, and have in fact pushed a whole lot of wooden chairs up against against the front door. They do this because they have become highly conservative in their eating habits and don't want to see any new dishes on the menu. Not that they actually eat anymore, but the restaurant still makes a great place to get-together for a cold beer and talk about how bad the menu is of the very popular restaurant up the road. :) -Julian