Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:49:14 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? Message-ID: <322897445.20050225204914@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEIJFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <1229915242.20050225184420@wanadoo.fr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEIJFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > That might be true but what is also true is that when such managers > win, they win very very big. Big risk, big potential return. But not everyone wants to gamble. > So big that in the sum total of things, their wins bring in far more > money to the company than anything that the conservative managers do. Sorry, but I really don't see how replacing Windows with an open-source solution or anything of that nature would bring in far more money to any company. > Open Source/FreeBSD isn't playing it safe, but it isn't a reckless risk > either. Technically it's not much of a risk, but politically and in business terms it can be a considerable risk. -- Anthony
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