Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 10:58:39 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Message-ID: <4.1.19981003105717.041c3760@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810031602350.13437-100000@banshee.cs.uow.e du.au> References: <19981003003108.A12411@execpc.com>
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At 04:13 PM 10/3/98 +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote: >A lot of criticism has been directed towards Walnut >Creek, and many people have said "if you want a more commercial freebsd >distribution, go out there and do it". This is where the discussion >typically ends. There are many out there willing to point out flaws with >the way Walnut Creek is handling distribution and whatnot of FreeBSD, >but very few are willing to translate that into action and do something >about it. Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to cut into Walnut Creek's sales, in effect hurting its current efforts. I suspect that the reason there have not been alternative distributions (other than a token effort by Cheap Bytes) is that people do not want to do this. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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