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> DSL for a a bit and make a few cds at home, if you
> use FreeBSD at your
> company, you should get them to subscribe to the
> CD's!  Maybe as an
> individual it's not cost effective for you. But
> there is no reason to
> let your company off the hook if you can help it. 
> 
>  
> 
>  Nicole
> 


Hear! Hear!  Glad someone pointed this out.

The CD subscriptions are very reasonable for a
company, and without the per machine requirements of
other OS types.  $40-100 per quarter is nothing.  Most
companies don't blink at a bar tab that large for a
salesperson.  CD subscription should be required on a
moral basis if for no other reason for a company. 
Indeed a company that uses *BSD should subscribe to
all *BSD versions to keep updated, abreast of devel,
and current.

Now that VMware is free I don't know why an IT dept
wouldn't be constantly evaluating *BSD subscriptions.