Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 20:44:31 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, js43064n@pace.edu Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So what happens to FreeBSD now? Message-ID: <p0510031eb75e868cb1bd@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <20010626084126W.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> References: <200106260901.AA23134284@stmail.pace.edu> <20010626084126W.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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At 8:41 AM -0700 6/26/01, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> FreeBSD will continue just fine and I will also continue to be
> involved - as my posting said, I'm not going to stop anything I'm
> currently doing, I'll just have a little less time than I did before.
> Seeing as I'm also a lot *happier* now than I was before, I expect it
> to be a wash in the end since even with less time, a happier engineer
> is a more productive one. :)
I, for one, believe that both FreeBSD and Apple will benefit
greatly by this change.
Apple will benefit, because it will have a higher-profile
advocate that is better known and better respected by the open source
community, and this will help demonstrate the depth of their
commitment to Unix. FreeBSD will benefit because it will have an
even stronger and more visible supporter of the freely available OS,
in the form of Apple.
The rest of us will benefit, because we'll finally get a desktop
OS with the full power and robustness of Unix, but with enough
desktop penetration that it will be able to actually deliver on being
able to run the standard business applications that most companies
really care about. This is something that even Linux hasn't quite
yet been able to deliver on.
IMO, MacOS X isn't yet at a place where I feel that I can use it
as my everyday desktop OS -- there is still too much work left to do
in the form of various drivers (especially Lucent/Agere
WaveLAN/Orinoco cards ;-). However, knowing that Jordan will be
working on both MacOS X and FreeBSD, I have a lot more confidence
that these problems will be fixed on a more reasonable timeframe.
So, what time today should we start seeing measurable benefit
from this move? ;-)
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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