Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:41:43 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970418154140.00a1eb38@etinc.com>
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At 02:02 PM 4/18/97 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: >> >> 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..... >> > >Sorry, but we ARE dealing with VERY VERY VERY big commercial companies. >Much bigger than etinc... Doesn't mean that etinc isn't valuable, but >there IS stuff going on... > Ah, so FreeBSD is not as much of a Free O/S as we are led to believe? What we, as the public, see is the by-product of special projects for these "companies". NOW, I understand....the motivation has little to do with good of the general user base.... db
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