Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:48:05 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: bdaniel7@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200502241648.j1OGm8U09806@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <89b41e470502240834ba670b1@mail.gmail.com> from "Daniel" at Feb 24, 2005 06:34:34 PM
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> > sorry, i should have sent this to entire list... > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:43:32 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote among others... > > > > FreeBSD does not have some of the things - such as distributed management > > of hundreds to thousands of FreeBSD servers over a large enterprise - > > that > > are a requirement for big companies. > > would not these things be worthy of implementing in FreeBSD? this way > other big companies would use it, pay you guys for it and FreeBSD will > grow stronger... > making a good OS that runs on cheap, low-end machines is nice, but the > real money come from companies... Maybe. But the initial intent of FreeBSD was not making money. It was having an OS that the people creating it liked so they didn't have to muck around with the rest of the junk out there. But, there is no reason that someone could not make such a system out of FreeBSD and charge for it - and probably make some significant money. I don't know if that should be the direction of the FreeBSD project per se though. Maybe, if those people who made the big system contributed their work back to FreeBSD it would be interesting. ////jerry > another idea, a study of what features big companies want from an OS > should be conducted...by you, maybe or some other people interested > and these features be prioritized for FreeBSD... > > have a good day.. > Dan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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