From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 20 08:08:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE9C16A403 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:08:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beranger5ca@yahoo.ca) Received: from web57704.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web57704.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B79A213C465 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:08:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beranger5ca@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 64705 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Apr 2007 08:08:05 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=k8cRj59WRFo8Vh2AcOM8Q0KC4hZXocob93G0Rwb8jRpSHOTx3ypj+3DtS/sLmi7LY3qJSNSnbGTm/tXOxgXlt1bEtvfwdcPAdNm7Suz3KmbJ5Jb3hhurnqgtQqrvrm494lQmC8/98w/t/lpV5tViURtyzTYDCG/08S0FQYKowxs=; X-YMail-OSG: gCDvvA0VM1nP9XWtrjBUA1ZkJThPXYCd4f3_jWY2xEtXQ1G2osPMiJdVmA8LpAlk60u_wfh.JYmWwniem8jKz2E7AxWhQHI4KkFLt7F3myQHnGGRrInkc54bpuZZ_H8W.VrbUT7croeoaDH5kV5qpFV6 Received: from [193.201.44.15] by web57704.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:08:05 EDT Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:08:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU To: Tom Rhodes In-Reply-To: <20070420035644.3c942b3b.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <937393.64429.qm@web57704.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The sorry state of open source today X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:08:07 -0000 --- Tom Rhodes wrote: > What was it that you said then? I actually cannot remember. Page 7: "Except for the *BSD family, whose members are either _*_backed_*_ by 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations like The FreeBSD Foundation or the NetBSD Project, or the task of individuals like Theo de Raadt for OpenBSD and Matt Dillon for DragonFly BSD (by the way, your donations to either of them are appreciated), the 500+ Linux distributions fall roughly into two main categories: the vast majority of the distributions are made by the enthusiasts, for the enthusiasts, and a given number of them are mainstream distros, supposed to be trustworthy and polished enough to satisfy both the corporate-minded user and the home user." Backed != controlled. > Next time write > about dogs if you don't want all the attention. ;) Nay, because I love cats, and guess who is a cat lover too? ;-) OK, moving on, I am back to better feelings now. The next week I have to migrate my home Linux installations to FreeBSD and NetBSD. I have four different Linhooks distros currently. Cheers, R-C Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com