Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 04:58:25 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Good News! Commercial Backing For FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909130430300.11258-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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I thought you all might like to hear this. Some of you have pissed an moaned for the last year about how FreeBSD needs a Red Hat like company to keep us relevant. For those of you who have voiced this concern this news is a boon. FreeBSD now has a commercial backer. Like Red Hat this company recently went public and is a strong supporter of open source. They even run the world busiest FTP server. The name of the company is Walnut Creek CDROM! I am sure all of those people who formerly castigated FreeBSD for not doing enough to attract a commercial backer will be appeased. Hopefully you guys understand the inferences I am making and you see the irony in certain arguments of past and present. Brett isn't raising good points. Brett is raising Brett's points. Nearly all of Brett's messages hail the impending doom of FreeBSD. Brett, being an effective writer, demands the attention of others to bring perspective to the discussion. People like Jordan end up spending time answering Brett's criticisms regardless of their merit. Procmail filters are not the answer. Sure, they protect one from Brett's lambaste. They don't save FreeBSD from him. Can you imagine if everything Brett wrote made its way to slashdot? The consequences would be terrible. It is bad enough that our competition is antagonistic. I say that Brett's discussion here does FreeBSD harm. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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