From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 25 20:56:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA17629 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 20:56:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA17532 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 20:55:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA02560; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:20:55 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199711260450.PAA02560@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Greg Lehey cc: Mike Smith , francisco@federation.addy.com, FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Help me reply to Infoworld correspondent: what is diff between BSDI and FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:47:05 +1030." <19971126144705.64183@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:20:55 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >> I can prepare some little promo to send to him telling him about > >> FreeBSD, but I want to answer his comment about BSDI vs FreeBSD. > > > > (much good stuff about the difference between free and commercial > > omitted) > > Agreed, but that's not the point Francisco (or Eric) was making. > What's the technical difference? I don't think that *is* the point. It's not "what is the technical difference", but "what is the difference from the user's perspective". The average user doesn't give a damn about technical differences, they want to know what it'll do for them. IMHO, that means stressing the very different relationship that a FreeBSD user has with the OS developers compared with that between a BSD/OS user and BSDi. mike