From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 4 23:24:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA25975 for current-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 23:24:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from Tandem.com (suntan.tandem.com [192.216.221.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA25962 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 23:24:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from papillon.lemis.com ([168.87.69.104]) by Tandem.com (8.8.8/2.0.1) with ESMTP id XAA20467; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 23:23:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id OAA01586; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:36:11 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <19971205143609.57742@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:36:09 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Mayo Cc: John Kelly , Terry Lambert , toasty@home.dragondata.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? References: <199712042148.OAA00918@usr02.primenet.com> <348839a9.79109795@mail.cetlink.net> <19971205000015.58063@vmunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <19971205000015.58063@vmunix.com>; from Mark Mayo on Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 12:00:15AM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 12:00:15AM -0500, Mark Mayo wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 1997 at 11:17:09PM +0000, John Kelly wrote: >> On Thu, 4 Dec 1997 21:48:54 +0000 (GMT), Terry Lambert >> wrote: >> >>>> Why is it a shame to lose users who don't pay anything for the >>>> software in the first place? >>> >>> Because of the economics of porting decisions made by commercial >>> software companies, for one. >> >> But if they won't pay anything for the OS how much will they pay for >> some app ported by a commercial vendor? > > You seem to be missing the point. I run FreeBSD simply because it's > the best operating system for my needs! Price is really not that > relevant - if FreeBSD costs as much as NT workstation, I'd almost > certainly buy it anyways! I think there's a good point to be made here. I started using FreeBSD mainly because Walnut Creek asked me to. I was a quite satisfied BSDI customer at the time (and I suppose that, for the next three weeks until my support contract runs out, I still am). Nevertheless, I didn't even install BSD/OS 3.0 when it arrived. In fact, I don't even know what I've done with the CD-ROMS :-( So I paid for BSD/OS and preferred to run FreeBSD. Greg