From owner-freebsd-announce Sun Dec 6 15:30:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17342 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:30:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17334; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:30:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmb) Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:30:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199812062330.PAA17334@hub.freebsd.org> From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" To: iang@systemics.com CC: chad@DCFinc.com, freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG, postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199812062315.TAA01982@systemics.com> (message from Ian Grigg on Sun, 6 Dec 1998 19:15:08 -0400 (AST)) Subject: Re: COMMERCIAL: $4.99 FreeBSD(r) 3.0 on CD-ROM References: <199812062315.TAA01982@systemics.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: Ian Grigg > I was immensely encouraged to see the advent of competition. > I have for a while now wondered whether FreeBSD has actually > been stilted due to lack of diversity and lack of an internal > market. > > Certainly the support that FreeBSD has had from Walnut Creek > cannot and should not be cast away ungratefully, but no product > makes it to adulthood without cutting loose from the apron > strings at some stage. > > I've just bought the book w/ CD, as a vote of thanks. CheapBytes has been making CDs for a year or more, as far as I recollect. It is good that they are doing this. People that by from CheapBytes would not buy from Walnut Creek. The result is that FreeBSD reaches more people ;) jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Core Team, Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message