From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 5 18:35:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F84F16A417 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 18:35:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deeptech71@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42AA13C45A for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 18:35:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deeptech71@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k4so1768621nfd for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:35:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=abeGD2t2ua5zGm6h8ao0zrEmyvJ5oGbzsvKaC17fujD5UI8egDQniMGWiXlikcjW2Ktuq8oWl6dw0gbS6wZ/hr8uA6ROIH05KWG6qUWryt9Hyc25RpjwXceFeO7EpHSjiLrvB1cqGCVbrcrF2cHD6YDkYFdnJPUqFWRnEKAjA9c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SDkuDVqrerBUqQzB0iZecIFZRondkxT7S58xemF8jqNVAZI4zalHwyRnaqFG5xgCWkMGuQYtP9GjHxVDimI76NOw4Rur5e5YBG5ck5V6RoTn9bBfkoeoCUJUDlmPrPDNNYCiOMXq+oUXu0kOhhGMI5XzxfhUH8k1rdqSIi3F5p8= Received: by 10.86.98.18 with SMTP id v18mr5399660fgb.1189017309358; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:35:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.123.111? ( [84.0.107.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y18sm10861081fkd.2007.09.05.11.35.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46DEF6E4.4000303@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:35:16 +0200 From: deeptech71@gmail.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <46DBF48E.7030806@gmail.com> <46DDA898.31626.39714C46@dan.langille.org> <46DEDCD8.3020605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: freebsdmall.com prices X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:35:28 -0000 Michael Hernandez wrote: > > On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:44 PM, deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hi Matt, I'm wondering how many people are behind the Mall, what the >> order statistics are, and how much the income is. If the Mall is just >> a secondary job, and you donate a considerable excess amount, then I >> have to respect, but also criticize that. The good thing is about >> *you* supporting the Project, is that *you* can chose what parts of >> development to encourage. If you donate raw cash, they will spend it >> on ice cream ;), if you donate a piece of hardware, they will utilize >> that thing for testing, which is good if your company relies heavily >> on FreeBSD driver efficiency and stability for that type of piece. >> However, if you really encourage advertising FreeBSD, you should make >> promo stuff as cheap as possible. > > All the while you can still download the releases for free so what are > you complaining about anyway? At first I thought you were just asking a > question and trying to gain insight but now I see you're just trolling. > I don't really understand what you are trying to gain through this > ranting. And I actually was. I don't know where you detect offensive speech. You must be misunderstanding something. Or I don't care how you look at my messages, even it it's like This is an unmoderated freebsd-chat, and I'm trolling all over it, sue me... If you want to use FreeBSD, you can, and for free. Same for > NetBSD, OpenBSD, various distributions of Linux...... what's the > problem? You can't realistically expect to get everything for no cost. > Or maybe you need clarification between the terms - Free does not > necessarily mean "at no cost to you" (although as you know you can still > download and use FreeBSD at virtually no cost to you....) Thanks, but that was evident to me. I may be a FreeBSD newbie, but I'm not THAT much of a newbie.