From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 4 10: 4:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9223537B503 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:04:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02739; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:01:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001004105835.05042c10@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 11:01:36 -0600 To: "Michael C . Wu" , Terry Lambert From: Brett Glass Subject: Buying vs. "Buying in" Cc: nate@yogotech.com, John Howie , Poul-Henning Kamp , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20001004114506.A24813@peorth.iteration.net> References: <200010022148.OAA11591@usr05.primenet.com> <200010022000.OAA18288@nomad.yogotech.com> <200010022148.OAA11591@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >If you buy a new machine from Telenet with FreeBSD or BSD/OS, >I think it would be supported... >But, are you buying FreeBSD when you do an FTP install? No; if you do the latter, it's more like buying INto something than buying a product. This is true of all cooperatively developed and maintained software. The sense of community is vital to the whole thing. This is why territoriality in such situations is so ungood. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message