-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05.03.2010 11:48, Alex Keda wrote: > On 05.03.2010 12:59, Doug Rabson wrote: >> On 5 Mar 2010, at 09:56, Alex Keda wrote: >> >> >>> On 05.03.2010 12:45, Doug Rabson wrote: >>> >>>> On 5 Mar 2010, at 09:30, Alex Keda wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 05.03.2010 12:17, Robert Watson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> consumers like Isilon, NetApp, Juniper, and many others >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> thus, it is not 'Free', this managed by 'consumers like Isilon, >>>>> NetApp, Juniper, and many others'? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> It might be helpful to think of them as 'customers' who are using >>>> our 'product' and paying for it by feeding back patches and >>>> employing FreeBSD developers. Normal business practice doesn't >>>> include intentionally making your customers' lives difficult - if >>>> you make a habit of it they tend to go elsewhere. >>>> >>>> >>> It seems to me, business and freedom - are mutually exclusive things. >>> or you can choose the path of development, or who pays - giver >>> commands to community. >>> no freedom there. >>> >> Someone always pays. If this project didn't have sponsors like Isilon, >> NetApp, Juniper, Yahoo, and many others it simply would not exist. >> > > then can a more correct name of the project or ClosedBSD or ManagedBSD? =) > or something abstract? > ========== > I love FreeBSD, but then having to follow the guidance of someone even > though everyone understands what you can do better - depressing.
Oh, so because a lot of the programmers behind it receive wages, and the project itself won't commit ritual suicide by basically blocking the companies using FreeBSD from returning improvements they make to the project itself, it should be renamed. Can I suggest you be careful around bright light sources? //Svein - -- - --------+-------------------+------------------------------- /"\ |Svein Skogen | [email protected] \ / |Solberg Østli 9 | PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X |2020 Skedsmokorset | [email protected] / \ |Norway | PGP Key: 0xCE96CE13 | | [email protected] ascii | | PGP Key: 0x58CD33B6 ribbon |System Admin | [email protected] Campaign|stillbilde.net | PGP Key: 0x22D494A4 +-------------------+------------------------------- |msn messenger: | Mobile Phone: +47 907 03 575 |[email protected] | RIPE handle: SS16503-RIPE - --------+-------------------+------------------------------- If you really are in a hurry, mail me at [email protected] This mailbox goes directly to my cellphone and is checked even when I'm not in front of my computer. - ------------------------------------------------------------ Picture Gallery: https://gallery.stillbilde.net/v/svein/ - ------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuQ5IoACgkQODUnwSLUlKTYLACbB37bgcYWrYrFjX0g6StaReSa k+YAn2hLbhcrXzbKoxDNklDhzGcWGEdw =3fZ/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
