From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 6 11:56: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from imo-d05.mx.aol.com (imo-d05.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4554537B409 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:55:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bsdguru@aol.com) Received: from Bsdguru@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id n.10c.24f4dbf (3965) for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 14:55:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Bsdguru@aol.com Message-ID: <10c.24f4dbf.287763bb@aol.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 14:55:55 EDT Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral To: hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 139 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a message dated 07/06/2001 7:42:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tedm@toybox.placo.com writes: > Nobody from BSDi has EVER given any business justification for the BSDi > acquisition of Walnut Creek. If you look past all the "we are going out > to do great things in the future" press release crap - there's nothing. > Nothing financially justifying that is. > > Was WC financially failing? If so why would BSDi take on more debt, that is > completely stupid. Plenty of other CD distributors WERN'T failing and the > CD distribution model is going great guns today. If WC started failing due > to mismanagement - then let them die. Another vendor would take over quick > enough. > Nothing BSDi ever did made any sense, so why does this suprise you? The fact that BSDi didnt nothing positive for FreeBSD doesnt surprise me at all. Bryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message