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Date:      Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:10:57 +0100
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <528192452.20050225131057@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <89b41e470502250015dc17b80@mail.gmail.com>
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Daniel writes:

> well, if a big company pays for support, those money would allow
> FreeBSD to have some more people (developers or not) focus on giving
> the support (fixing/answering) while the developers do their job...i
> believe this is quite natural course of action

Paying for support would rapidly generate a conflict of interest, in
that it would encourage the production of buggy software in order to
increase support revenues (the only revenues the software generates).

-- 
Anthony




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