Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:30:26 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: iang@systemics.com Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG, postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: COMMERCIAL: $4.99 FreeBSD(r) 3.0 on CD-ROM Message-ID: <199812062330.PAA17334@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199812062315.TAA01982@systemics.com> (message from Ian Grigg on Sun, 6 Dec 1998 19:15:08 -0400 (AST)) References: <199812062315.TAA01982@systemics.com>
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> From: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com> > 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
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