From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 10:27:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3014F14E4D for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:27:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartequi@nojunk.com) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (ppp51-pa4.neomedia.it [195.103.207.243]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA22895; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:26:06 +0100 (CET) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:27:51 GMT Message-ID: <20000118.18275100@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: About free bsd To: Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: X-Mailer: Supercalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 1/18/00, 4:38:42 PM, Jonathon McKitrick=20 wrote regarding Re: About free bsd : > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, David Kelly wrote: > >CDROM's, shirts, jackets, stickers, stuffed daemon plushies, etc., which > >pay for hosting FreeBSD on the 'net, for much of the development > >hardware, and for some of the salaries of those who work full time on= > >FreeBSD. > So walnut creek actually *pays* some of the programming staff? > -=3D> jm <=3D- > "Doors to the pleasures of heaven or hell, and i didn't care > which...." Dear Jonathon McKitrick, just to play the Daemon's advocate: Have you ever calculated the cost of *everything* that you can do with FreeBSD (e.g. in terms of other commercial Unices or M$uxware) ? You might begin by listing StarOffice ($0) or Applixware (~ $100) on the left, and M$Office on the right. And do NOT forget the *server* side of the comparison ... When you are finished with your arithmetic, please let me know. Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message