Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:50:52 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD direction/Damonnews article Message-ID: <3B1BE69C.FD401663@pitt.edu> References: <20010604200851.A65559@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------614C0BB35A86524C4264FA3B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit j mckitrick wrote: > > I haven't done any searching on where this thread might have started, but i > thought maybe i would add my thoughts. > > I have been very nervous about both the BSDi merger and now the Wind River > merger. I do not have negative thoughts about the companies as much as i do > the future of (Free)BSD. I recently asked if the Wind River acquisition would > affect the release schedule for FreeBSD. One -chat reply was "why would it ?" > > Well, the reason i thought it might would be that decisions by the new > 'parent' company could add or take away from full-time BSD developers. > Additionally, having more or less direction could affect the pace of current > projects. Lastly, a company with potentially hostile or at least purely > selfish intentions could hardly help the project. Any or all of these > factors could cause core members to resign, committers to become frustrated, > and interest to decline. > > On another angle, i agree that the Open Source model lacks and clearly needs > a better management model. Witness the plethora of > Yet-Another-Window-Manager and Me-Too email clients, and contrast that with > the glaring lack of good CAD, circuit design, desktop publishing, and other > such special application tools. Disclaimer: if i am unaware of a tool that > fills one of these needs to the degree that it is or can be professionally > accepted and used as well as an existing commercial product, by all means, i > stand corrected. But i would dare say the exceptions are few and far > between. > CAD tools, Well..there's VARKON: http://www.varkon.com/ But...if the free tools are not ported yet to FreeBSD, what makes you think the commercial ones will? I doubt there is interest for CAD tools under FreeBSD :(. ... > > But then again, what do i know? I'm just a lowly student who loves computers > and hopes to make a living writing software. :-) > Lose all faith... I love computers too, but I suspect studying Mechanical Engineering was the best I could've done. Pedro. --------------614C0BB35A86524C4264FA3B Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="pfg1.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Pedro F. Giffuni Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pfg1.vcf" begin:vcard n:Giffuni;Pedro tel;fax:1 (360) 343-0501 tel;home:(412) 665 2956 tel;work:(412) 624-9862 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.geocities.com/giffunip/ org:University of Pittsburgh;Industrial Engineering adr:;;5820 Elwood St. Apt. 34;Pittsburgh;PA;15232;USA version:2.1 email;internet:giffunip@asme.org title:Teaching Assistant fn:Pedro F. Giffuni end:vcard --------------614C0BB35A86524C4264FA3B-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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