From owner-freebsd-small Thu Apr 13 9:28: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from loki.dyn.ez-ip.net (24.66.207.153.ab.wave.home.com [24.66.207.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E779737B8A7 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:27:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neo@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by loki.dyn.ez-ip.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA02746; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:27:27 -0600 From: dreamwvr Reply-To: dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com Organization: dreamwvr.com To: Jeff LeBlanc , Jeff LeBlanc , dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com, chad@DCFinc.com Subject: Re: i-opener shipping Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:43:43 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0004131027260U.00722@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, thanks Jeff! it seems that a co that would change the hardware to deter development with the exception of their own os. as a planned move to prevent innovation by others should expect people to find more acceptable route. since a traceroute of the from co in taiwan would allow many to access the hardware without monopoly occuring this is very acceptable IMHO. my co would love to distribute but the amount of volume required 'most likely' will deter this.. Seems like this is a very good solution for all open source oses. From experience in Linux since i am fascinated with picoBSD but have yet get it to usable quality for my co use. admittedly i am new to pico so this is no surprise .. but do use OpenBSD so not entirely lost. oh well my plan was to evaluate in the co lab. but until i can get a reliable open sourceable supply am hooped. really do not consider the co that originally sold this with their services a open co since their move. apparently they are reconsidering so you never know but still if it is done once it could just as easily occur again. Solution? go direct to the manufacturer and buy enough units to make it worthwhile for them. then it remains open as their is a business case for them. Best Regards, dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jeff LeBlanc wrote: > sounds like good thinking to me. ...and i thought the mention of this quite > appropriate for posting on the list. i just wanted to express my support. > > have a good day, guys. > > -J > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message