Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:15:38 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970418121536.00b52b60@etinc.com>
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At 09:22 AM 4/18/97 -0600, Nate Williams wrote: >> Why is this "annoucement" such a big secret? Are you just not sure >> yet? You complain about no commercial vendors not being interested in >> FreeBSD, and then you give us this horsecrap about "wait 90 days for >> the big unveiling..." > >You've obviously never dealt with other commercial vendors before. >Right now as we speak my company is waiting with baited breath for two >companies (Symantec and IONA) to release their next products, which are >*critical* to our future success, since the # of bugs and missing >features in the current crop make it useless for long-term success. All >attempts to let us know *IF* our bugs are fixed, whether or not new >features that exist in other vendors products, and anything that will >help us to make decisions are not told. > >This is *common* with all organizations, at least with FreeBSD you get >*hints* as to what's coming down the pike by looking at commit messages, >with commercial companies you cross your fingers and hope for the best. Freebsd is *not* a commercial company and there is no benefit to secrecy. Why does a "free" OS have secrets? And this is not about fixing bugs, believe me I understand about bugs, its about having to reengineer freebsd based systems every couple of months..... I'm just getting tired of getting hit in the nuts for not supporting -current....the fact that the release is out of date a week after its out is a very bad thing and really needs to change... Dennis
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