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Date:      Sun, 3 Oct 1999 09:49:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dirk Myers <dirkm@buster.dhis.org>
To:        J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freebsd's life expectancy
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910030944550.5231-100000@harpo.dhis.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910031628320.75433-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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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
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Letting Microsoft control your operating system is like
letting ValuJet run air traffic control.



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