Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:47:09 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "FreeBSD Chat" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <06b601c28ee7$76a3c8b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20021117215730.W23359-100000@hub.org>
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Marc writes: > So, you are saying we should sit quietly back > and accept the instabilities? I'm saying that you don't really have much choice, unless you start paying people to work on the OS. For most people, earning money to pay the rent comes first, and volunteer work comes second. Additionally, in volunteer work, people tend to concentrate on what they enjoy, and not always on what must be done. > Man, will that ever get FreeBSD into the corporate IT > departments ... I've pointed out this problem before. It exists for all open-source software. That's one reason why corporations still pay money for proprietary software, even when they can get potentially better software for free. Knowing the the software was free won't help if it crashes at 3 AM and there's nobody to call for support. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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