From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 04:29:53 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B33C2C9 for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 04:29:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D09CA250E for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 04:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-113-114.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.113.114]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5FA5E3F866; Fri, 16 May 2014 06:29:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s4G4TnZE002570; Fri, 16 May 2014 06:29:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 06:29:49 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Benjamin Lee Subject: Re: A myth that has been omission in FreeBSD Advocacy =?UTF-8?Q?Project=E2=80=8F?= Message-Id: <20140516062949.cb3087a5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140515212217.0af33255@b1c1l1.com> References: <20140516033049.229275a0.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140515212217.0af33255@b1c1l1.com> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: velocidade da luz , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 04:29:53 -0000 On Thu, 15 May 2014 21:22:17 -0700, Benjamin Lee wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2014 03:30:49 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 16 May 2014 02:52:15 +0300, velocidade da luz wrote: > > > A myth that has was omitted in FreeBSD Advocacy Project is > > > as follows: The hardware and software vendors consider the > > > BSD system used as Hobby.http://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/myths.html > [...] > > > Do you agree with me? > > > > Agree on what? That BSD systems are a hobby? Definitely not. > > Furthermore, the page you mentioned doesn't mention the word > > "hobby"... And by the way, many users of the BSDs just don't > > care much about what hardware and software vendors might think > > about what BSD is; their focus is on using and developing > > BSD to become better every day and make it available to those > > who want to improve the world we live in. > > You seem to have misread the original post, which suggested that "BSD is > a hobby" should be added to the list of *myths* on the advocacy page > precisely to preempt such claims. Erm... now that I re-read the question: Yes, that's a fully valid interpretation. Note that English is not my native language. Still the question to answer prior to adding something to the list of myths is: Do hardware and software vendors _really_ consider BSD a hobby, or (which I think is more likely) don't they really know about it, or ignore it? Again, the fact that many businesses work because BSD exists, and many corporation building their infrastructure on BSD (even when they don't know or admit it) would suggest that they do _not_ consider BSD a hobby. But that's just my very individual interpretation, I'm not a million $ company. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...