Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:23:20 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Thierry.herbelot" <herbelot@cybercable.fr> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000311171114.13688S-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <38C960E2.3D58BD4B@cybercable.fr>
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I snipped the following from the cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Didier Derny <didier@omnix.net>, hope they don't mind 8-) On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Thierry.herbelot wrote: > "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > [SNIP] > > > > If you think it's possible to bend the FreeBSD project to anyone's > > corporate will then you've never even come close to understanding who > > we are or what we stand for. That's a shame since one would think 6 > > years to be more than enough time to gain such an understanding. > > > > - Jordan > > Then, what are the benefits for both parties ? > > For the FreeBSD project : > - many more supported platforms (Sparc, PowerPC, Arm ?) definately. > - better Intel SMP ? Possibly not only intel smp, according to Wes Peters. > - new developpers ? I would say yes. > - increased credibility via the support network of BSDi ? > add marekting, market penetration, additional name recognition, corporate contacts and a lot of other things. > For BSD/OS : > - better exposure thanks to OpenSource ? > - Yahoo dollars ? > - access to a greater community of **volunteer** testers ? > Access to the developer pool ? > TfH > > (This is absolutely not a flame bait : I'm very happy to imagine I could > eventually get for-pay support for FreeBSD machines at work) > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > -- > Thierry Herbelot /"\ ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN > \ / AGAINST HTML MAIL & NEWS > mailto:herbelot@cybercable.fr X PAS DE HTML > http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot / \ DANS LES COURRIELS > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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