From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 22 12:09:02 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA00487 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 12:09:02 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA00437 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 12:08:59 -0700 Received: from mail0.iij.ad.jp (mail0.iij.ad.jp [192.244.176.61]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id LAA29568 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 1995 11:39:57 -0700 Received: from uucp0.iij.ad.jp (uucp0.iij.ad.jp [192.244.176.51]) by mail0.iij.ad.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.3W9-MAIL) with ESMTP id DAA09217 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 03:35:08 +0900 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by uucp0.iij.ad.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.3W9-UUCP) with UUCP id DAA06673 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 03:35:10 +0900 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 95 03:08:13 JST From: hiro@coh.or.jp (Hiro Sugisaka) Message-Id: <9507221808.AA24239@cavern.coh.or.jp> To: questions@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: where to ask about commercial use of FreeBSD? Sender: questions-owner@FREEBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Dear Sir, Please forgive me if my sudden e-mail disturbs you. My name is Hiro Sugisaka, working at SOFEL Co.,Ltd. located in Japan. I would like to know if I can use FreeBSD for my future business, but I don't know where to ask this question. I would appreciate if you could forward my e-mail to an right person who can answer my question. We are about to start up the Internet providing service in Japan. We will provide the connections of the Internet, like T-1 IP connection, dial-up IP connection, UUCP connection and so on. I have set up our system with Sun workstations, but now I would like to use FreeBSD for our FTP server, News server, WWW server and other additional services, beside providing the connection service. I know that I can buy BSD/OS for that kind of case. But my point is, there may be no benefit for the BSD volunteer activities though I will work for finding the bugs and adding some features which we may need in our system while we do our Internet providing services. I know it is not a big problem for us to buy BSD/OS for it, in terms of its price. All what I am thinking is, I will pick up FreeBSD which you are trying to make it a stable FREE Unix operating system, because I want to contribute to your activities if we can. I do not think that we'll sell FreeBSD itself, we just use it for our services toward our customers and other Internet users. And though I say I'll use FreeBSD for our services, there may be a slight possibility that we have to stop using it because of its bugs which bring us a serious problem in our services. I hope you understand my point. If you permit us to use FreeBSD for our system, I am sure that it will be a good example for FreeBSD users in terms of how to use FreeBSD at the connection of the Internet. If people can login the system, they can read and get our configurations of inn, httpd, proxy and so on. Thank you very much for reading my e-mail. If you'll have some questions, please e-mail me. I'll be looking forward to hearing from you. Regards, Hiro Sugisaka Director of R&D SOFEL Co.,Ltd.