From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 4 8:52:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D646214E9D for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 08:52:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19169; Tue, 4 May 1999 08:52:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd019118; Tue May 4 08:52:10 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA04621; Tue, 4 May 1999 08:52:09 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199905041552.IAA04621@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Some thoughts on advocacy (was: Slashdot ftp.cdrom.com upgra To: billf@chc-chimes.com (Bill Fumerola) Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:52:09 +0000 (GMT) Cc: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in, asmodai@wxs.nl, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au In-Reply-To: from "Bill Fumerola" at May 3, 99 02:09:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How many companies do you think want to dedicate manhours to a project > that has to be released to the general public. All of them who: 1) are aware of the difference between "tactical" and "strategic"? 2) desirous of offloading their maintenance burden? 3) want to leverage the free code developement, which will be going forward, with or without them? ??? That's why all the companies I know of contribute changes back to free software projects, even if the license doesn't require them to do so... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message