Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 20:37:58 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? Message-ID: <20060802203604.A6529@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0608021216u455099a9yf66ea2d1698f4d19@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <17615.30414.314802.792740@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <ef10de9a0608011037w3609b5a6k1709aea61d43ed0f@mail.gmail.com> <20060801223754.U27679@ganymede.hub.org> <ef10de9a0608011859q45bdd636o757fb4aba2d3404d@mail.gmail.com> <20060801230301.Q27679@ganymede.hub.org> <df9ac37c0608012122q196a6434jf849cc7bd8c1156@mail.gmail.com> <44D09F46.6020300@dial.pipex.com> <ef10de9a0608021047u553a812fpbcf09c8c26df09b6@mail.gmail.com> <44D0F2FE.9020507@dial.pipex.com> <ef10de9a0608021216u455099a9yf66ea2d1698f4d19@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > This may sound dumb but why don't we just put a registration link on the > FreeBSD main page... or "registration" in sysinstall. Isn't this how > everyone else handles the problem? User A installs FreeBSD, registers, works with it for a week, finds he isn't getting anything done with it, wipes the drive and goes to something else ... User B installs FreeBSD 5.x, registers, works with it for a while and decides to CVSup to -CURRENT, so now we have an artificially high # of 6.x installs, and an artificially low # of 7.x installs ... nobody looks to be moving to 7.x, therefore why support it from a vendors perspective ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
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