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Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:30:27 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning?
Message-ID:  <20010710173027.A53776@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010710175800.A77023@FreeBSD.org>; from eivind@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:58:00PM %2B0200
References:  <20010630174743.A85268@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010707160255.A18525@thinksec.no> <20010710151059.A52201@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010710175800.A77023@FreeBSD.org>

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| - The CAM code in FreeBSD, developed by Plutotech for their embedded video
|   editing system and contributed back.  This is the present basis for the
|   FreeBSD SCSI subsystem.

I had heard FreeBSD has been used in some video post-production software,
but it doesn't seem to get much publicity.  I wonder why not?  And why can't
BSD be used as a platform for a really good audio editing application, like
CakeWalk is for Win32?

| - The original PnP support for the ed driver, developed by Yours Truly for Yes
|   interactive and donated back to FreeBSD.  This also contained a simple but

So these companies don't care that after paying a consultant to do the work,
the result is effectively given away?  Or do they just want a solution for a
problem, and don't care about the code itself?



Jonathon
--
Microsoft complaining about the source license used by 
Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black.

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