From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 3 9:51: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harpo.dhis.org (pm3-01-13.eug.du.teleport.com [216.26.32.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F286014F6C for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 09:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dirkm@buster.dhis.org) Received: from localhost (dirkm@localhost) by harpo.dhis.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA07477; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 09:49:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dirkm@buster.dhis.org) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 09:49:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Dirk Myers X-Sender: dirkm@harpo.dhis.org To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd's life expectancy In-Reply-To: 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 Sun, 3 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > I don't really want to start a flame war, but... > I just installed freebsd and i LOVE it. SHould i be concerned that > freeBSD will die out someday, since it is not really a commerical > enterprise, but is supported by volunteers? You should always be concerned about this. However, my personal experience is that it's far more likely for a commercial vendor to drop a program than it is for a volunteer project with a healthy user base to be discontinued. My feeling is that a volunteer project is *more* likely to survive. Dirk dirkm@buster.dhis.org ----------------------------- Letting Microsoft control your operating system is like letting ValuJet run air traffic control. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message