I snipped the following from the cc:
"Jordan K. Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Didier Derny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
hope they don't mind 8-)
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Thierry.herbelot wrote:
> "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> >
> [SNIP]
> >
> > If you think it's possible to bend the FreeBSD project to anyone's
> > corporate will then you've never even come close to understanding who
> > we are or what we stand for. That's a shame since one would think 6
> > years to be more than enough time to gain such an understanding.
> >
> > - Jordan
>
> Then, what are the benefits for both parties ?
>
> For the FreeBSD project :
> - many more supported platforms (Sparc, PowerPC, Arm ?)
definately.
> - better Intel SMP ?
Possibly not only intel smp, according to Wes Peters.
> - new developpers ?
I would say yes.
> - increased credibility via the support network of BSDi ?
>
add marekting, market penetration, additional name recognition, corporate
contacts and a lot of other things.
> For BSD/OS :
> - better exposure thanks to OpenSource ?
> - Yahoo dollars ?
> - access to a greater community of **volunteer** testers ?
>
Access to the developer pool ?
> TfH
>
> (This is absolutely not a flame bait : I'm very happy to imagine I could
> eventually get for-pay support for FreeBSD machines at work)
>
> >
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