From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 10:33:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F44014FDA for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:33:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12AdRc-0001Nw-00; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:33:32 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA35920; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:33:32 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:33:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About free bsd In-Reply-To: <20000118.18275100@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: >just to play the Daemon's advocate: > >Have you ever calculated the cost of *everything* that you can do with >FreeBSD (e.g. in terms of other commercial Unices or M$uxware) ? > >You might begin by listing StarOffice ($0) or Applixware (~ $100) on >the left, and M$Office on the right. > >And do NOT forget the *server* side of the comparison ... > >When you are finished with your arithmetic, please let me know. Well i'm not quite sure how you took my comment, but i am an avid FreeBSD fan. I just thought it was *all* volunteers. I didn't realize there was a group of paid programmers. Believe me, you are preaching to the choir. I love BSD. -=> jm <=- "Doors to the pleasures of heaven or hell, and i didn't care which...." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message