Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 15:50:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: ncb05@uow.edu.au, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Message-ID: <199810031951.PAA24027@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981003105717.041c3760@mail.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Oct 3, 98 10:58:39 am
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Wait a minute. Let's get one thing straight. Walnut Creek's done a very good job with FreeBSD... FreeBSD isn't Walnut Creek's business. Selling CDROMS (Ada, Slackware, FreeBSD) is. They've done a very creditable job and more than most companies. I doubt Info-Magic's done as much for Linux. (They are also a good CDROM house and I have also had dealings with them.) RED HAT is a software company and there's no equivalent for FreeBSD. Trying to say it is like trying to say Walnut Creek is BSDI. It's just a foolish analogy. If Walnut Creek is changing its focus it's a very different business. I don't think the apples and oranges comparisons have any value. I'd love to see some venture money feeding a "FreeBSD Co." (not necessarily FreeBSD Inc, Jordan) to get us on a more even footing. I'm not worried about Debian, Slackware, or Caldera -- but Red Hat scares me. They've become the Microsoft of Linux in my opinion. Read Linux Journal and count the ads and references to the different distributions. Bill > > 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 > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bill and/or Carolyn Pechter | pechter@shell.monmouth.com | | Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in | | a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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