From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 12 19:12:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10722 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:12:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (phobos.illtel.denver.co.us [207.33.75.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10703; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:12:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.9.1a/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA19001; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:12:19 -0800 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:12:19 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Belits To: Chuck Robey cc: Artur Grabowski , Tech1 , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG, tech@openbsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Detailed info on Fail-safe cluster for Freebsd/unixes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > > "Tech1" writes: > > > > > The cost of this software is $350 but open for bargin. For more than 10M $ > > > company it's another price. If anyone working as consultant for companies. > > > You may resell this software to them. > > > > Or you can get almost the same thing for free from http://www.eddieware.org/ > > With source code. (Yes, I know it still doesn't run on *BSD, but that's a > > matter of weeks until that code is released). > > The guy's trying to make a living, and you're not. What difference does it make? > You don't know the > quality of either piece of software yet, but attitudes like that are a > big reason that free software isn't more highly catered to by commercial > companies. > > If you want native versions of things like WordPerfect, then reconsider > making posts like this. If someone wants native version of things like WordPerfect, he should encourage companies like Corel to do port that software to FreeBSD. BTW, I have a strong suspicion that Corel will rather accept ARM port of FreeBSD than any kind of ass-kissing. -- Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message