Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 22:32:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: Dale Chulhan <dchulhan@uwi.tt>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Future And Direction Of FreeBSD Project Message-ID: <20011021221731.D1258-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net> In-Reply-To: <20011021164229.A63819@hades.hell.gr>
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > WindRiver is gone (or, at least, about to go). DaemonNews is coming. > There are both bad and good news. Don't over-estimate the importance > of bad news and, at the same time, under-estimate the optimism behind > good news. To add my $.2: Especially when talking about computers, there has always been *A LOT* of hype everywhere. Really, whenever I read a news article about anything that has to do with computers, I always find something in there that is purely speculative and far away from the truth. I have seen articles out there that said that because Jordan works for Apple and because the release of 5.0 has been postponed, FreeBSD is dead. However, drawing *that* conclusion from the two facts mentioned above is, actually, stupid and has very little to do with reality. I think that the most important factors for FreeBSD are developer and user input. Without developers, the project would not continue to go on, and without users, it would make no sense to go on. However, even after the WindRiver thing and the postponed 5-release, developers and users are obviously there. I don't see a reason why that should change. My advice: Whenever you read something somewhere on the web (or even in a magazine), have another critical look at it. I've never had much to do with Linux (in contrast to FreeBSD, ;-)), but I remember a few years ago reading that "Linux would soon be dead" when the public learned that Linus Torvalds would work for Transmeta. As we know today, that has not happened, and even back then I could not understand why it shoud happen. FreeBSD will also continue to be there in full force, I don't have any doubts about that. Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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