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>From The Desk Of Terry Lambert :
> > > >	"CONTRIBUTE, PAY or SHUT UP! (in order of my preference)"
> > > 
> > > Then you shouldn't call it FreeBSD, because it isn't.  You should
> > > call it "MembersOnlyBSD."
> > > 
> > > I was under the mistaken impression that the core team might be 
> > > starting to forget that there are users out there.  You have made
> > > it clear that in fact it is because you are pretending you don't
> > > have users.
> > 
> > It is a matter of what we can do and the resources that we
> > have available -- that is all .
> 
> No it's not.  It is the difference between an entrepeneurship (16-22
> participants, max) and a small business (100-150 participants, max)
> and a medium business  (1200-2500 participants, max).
> 

I don't think that the above is the case. Clearly, FreeBSD is available
for any large corporation to take charget of it.

And the "club membershib" syndrome if it gets on the way it can be side step
by way of providing patches or separate distributions.

	Amancio