Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 13:03:09 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Cc: dyson@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, dennis@etinc.com, julian@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FBSD support inc. Message-ID: <199512112003.NAA01693@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199512110233.SAA00735@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Dec 10, 95 06:33:23 pm
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> > I would hate to convert my hobby into something like work :-(. When > > I took the SVR4 support/development I thought that I would be like a > > kid in a candy store. It ended up that the kid ate too much candy... > > Hmmm... Where is the candy ? > > BTW: We do need professional support for some of the things that people > don't feel like doing. But do you then accept the resulting code into the free tree with no questions asked? This is the other side of the coin for those considering offering commercial support. If the answer is "no", then they will have to reintegrate their changes each release. Me, Brian Litzinger, and several others have already found that there are rather strenuous requirements for integration. I'm afraid that a commercial support organization, unless it was tied to the core team and tree maintenance, would find it more convenient to come out with "BSDI Mark II". This is not something that I would encourage setting yourself up for. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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