From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 10 18:44:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0F816A419 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:44:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E42413C44B for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:44:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1AIi3SV006101; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:44:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id m1AIhuST006098; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:43:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:43:56 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Ted Mittelstaedt In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20080210194343.D6058@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Tore Lund , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Some ideas for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:44:25 -0000 > If you have a large market but everyone in the market is a moron and > will be calling you for tech support, your going to make less money > than a smaller market where everyone is an expert and nobody is calling > you for tech support. What is double plus good is that there's > experts floating around in the small market who will do your support for > you, including writing your drivers, all you have to do is supply > a minimal set of programming interface docs. This is a far cry from > Windows where you have to write and debug the driver and pay Microsoft > a lot of money to get it certified. > > As for attention from Adobe, doesen't it bother you to use a free OS > merely as a platform for running commercial software? How about > ditching the commercial software completely and using free open > source tools on the free OS? That's what FreeBSD is all about, honey. can't be told clearer :)