From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 26 1:39:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (unknown [194.128.198.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DCD237B404; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:39:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0PMnff01149; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:49:41 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:49:40 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Mike Smith Cc: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-core@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open Source Development Laboratory ... Message-ID: <20010125224940.A1127@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200101252029.f0PKTf801281@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101252029.f0PKTf801281@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:29:41PM -0800 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:29:41PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Is this something that FreeBSD/BSDi are/is looking at becoming a member > > of, or is this something that is purely a Linux thing? > > > > http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010123S0019 > > It's purely a Linux thing. BSDi tried to get involved in a couple of > that sort of thing, and I've been putting my oar in where I could, but > the combined lack of manpower and lack of funding has prettymuch left us > out in the cold. 8( Seconded. From what I can tell, this is purely so that the companies involved can find an effective way of making money from Linux. Anything that makes that possibility seem more remote (say, the publicising of a more stable, robust, and scalable free alternative to Linux) is completely anathema to them. As well as the BSDi efforts from the US I've been approaching the players from the European side, to no effect. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message