Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:59:41 +1100 (EST) From: Joel Sutton <jsutton@bbcon.com.au> To: Lanny Baron <lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ADV] the talk about fbsd in linux and free cd's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002252147330.159-100000@stargate.home> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002250458290.4070-100000@satan.freebsdsystems.com>
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Lanny, On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Lanny Baron wrote: > Now Jordan, you told the guy in mail here he should go ahead and get free > FreeBSD cd's made. Has anyone seen that Microsoft MAKES money? Not by > giving away cdroms for sure. It makes my blood boil to see this nonsense. Yes, Microsoft does make money. And they make a fairly average server operating system as well. > Jordan, and anyone here connected with The FreeBSD Project, I only want to > see the organization succeed in all aspects. Then perhaps you should look at why we all do this "FreeBSD thing". I certainly won't get paid for running our user group meeting tomorrow - so it can't be the money. > I hope you dont burn free freebsd cdroms. It looks cheap, and people that > WANT quality expect it to cost. If I've got my facts straight, there's no way anyone can stop anyone else from doing this. > In their logical minds, it works something like this. Well, lets see, > the system the company sells out performs others like NT and Novell > and can keep pace with IBM AS 400's. Hmm..and its free...nah how good > can it be? Ahh..they will be out of business and then we're stuck. ..and yet our user group (VicFUG) still keeps on growing, with a majority of the members being businesses. A few of them do FreeBSD support too, BTW. > Red Hat here costs at least $60.00 NT costs about 12 or 13 hundred. I > wonder who IS making money. I know who is NOT. Exactly *who* would make money if FreeBSD cost 12 or 13 hundred dollars? Every single one of its contributors? Regards, Joel... --- Joel Sutton | Busy Bee Consulting Phone: 0409 426-563 | Melbourne, Australia Email: jsutton@bbcon.com.au | http://www.bbcon.com.au/ VicFUG President/Webmaster | http://www.vicfug.au.freebsd.org/ FreeBSDzine Editor | http://www.freebsdzine.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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