Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:47:51 -0400 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore Message-ID: <20110719144751.01beb9c6@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <CAHu1Y72m%2BvNZmZLA33QDC5PA-ezB0dAN5PX6qPfXERpeA8QKwg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110717071059.25971662@scorpio> <4E25C70C.8000308@dracoquies.us> <CAHu1Y72m%2BvNZmZLA33QDC5PA-ezB0dAN5PX6qPfXERpeA8QKwg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:19:04 -0400 Michael Sierchio articulated: > IMHO what has helped Linux is the existence of commercial > distributions with support - Red Hat, SUSE, etc. The only attempts to > do this for BSD have been undercapitalized and/or half-hearted. Yes, it is hard to sell a car sans support. Giving the new owner an instruction manual and telling him to fix it himself is not an ideal business model. > But I find the general premise of the discussion to be - how to say > this politely? - stupid. Ah, such fine manners. > Things that interest me are relevant, things that don't presumably > are not, until they are. Now that I will agree with, unless I don't. :) -- Jerry ✌ jerry+fbsd@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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