Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:37:13 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Message-ID: <v04220801b64d2084ba1c@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <200012010311.UAA18343@usr09.primenet.com> References: <200012010311.UAA18343@usr09.primenet.com>
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At 3:11 AM +0000 2000/12/1, Terry Lambert wrote: > IBM does not sell InterJets, any more than your local cable > company sells set-top boxes: IBM sells services. Since an > end user does not _buy_ an InterJet, they are not entitled to > the source code, even if it was all contaminated: they are > not being sold the software. Right. This is one of the key reasons why I never considered getting an InterJet. If someone *sold* a BSD-based device that is otherwise identical to this, I would have bought one in a nanosecond, but I don't want to buy a Linux-based Qube, nor do I want to shackle myself forever to a service provider. Everyone is getting into the "give away a piece of hardware that does something that used to be free and sell the services" business model, but not everyone is buying it. I'm not going to pay TiVo $$$ per month to take an electronic TV schedule (the contents of which are printed for "free" in newspapers and magazines around the world) and then have a computer digitally record the stuff I want to watch. If someone wants to *sell* me the box that does this via other services that are already available (via broadcast during the vertical blanking interval on PBS stations, etc...), I'll be more than happy to spend lots of extra money to get that, but I simply refuse to shackle myself to buying a set of services for the rest of my life. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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