From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 25 12:51:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF38D16A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:51:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7512943D5C for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:51:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bdaniel7@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 1so407113rny for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:51:30 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=f0W700HZGbNXbiesf6Ikf/j+rFkZbjVF3Sb5eqJgC4v4r9e2o0DxiqeHVbk2abvGrM5MIqsusOXKeeXBut9jpl8wQL8D2AzhIimk5OGFMTDuCySAZWI2ngyAAEU6K+HcjZI+ePz49PUCgzYms0zhBqH2HtoDRACPDrqrvxC/Qjg= Received: by 10.38.206.77 with SMTP id d77mr29840rng; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:51:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.8.19 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:51:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <89b41e47050225045140823818@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:51:30 +0200 From: Daniel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <528192452.20050225131057@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <89b41e4705022407542f4feaa9@mail.gmail.com> <89b41e470502240834ba670b1@mail.gmail.com> <89b41e470502250015dc17b80@mail.gmail.com> <528192452.20050225131057@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:51:32 -0000 On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:10:57 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > > well, if a big company pays for support, those money would allow > > FreeBSD to have some more people (developers or not) focus on giving > > the support (fixing/answering) while the developers do their job...i > > believe this is quite natural course of action > > Paying for support would rapidly generate a conflict of interest, in > that it would encourage the production of buggy software in order to > increase support revenues (the only revenues the software generates). my scenario was this: i'm a big company and i use FreeBSD coz it suites best for my needs; let's say among others that my/a programming team built something on top of it ; because i want the system to work as flawless as possible i pay a monthly fee for support - say some 4 to 6 figures of dollars; would i care what you do with the money? i think not; i'm only interested that you'll be there (in place) whenever i need, whenever i get some freaky error.... the more companies will pay, FreeBSD will have some more guys for support and some more guys for developing... this may be a rather crude view but it could serve as a starting point... Dan