Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: ... > The yelling and namecalling is unfortunate. But from observation and > professional experience, if you want professional grade support for a > software livecycle of over 3 years, you should be willing to pay for > it. > >
It would be cool to see more BSD consulting companies and support companies, and web hosting companies. If I was to look for an OpenBSD web hosting company, I'd have difficulty finding one. There are far too many LINUX web hosts out there. BSD seems like such a small tiny niche. The market is saturated with LINUX web hosts and linux support companies, but BSD is lacking. People often use Linux because it's the popular web hosting O/S, not because it is a better tool. Also MySQL became a billion dollar company and it doesn't even sell any product, it just offers "support" that you pay for. You wouldn't think support would gain you millions of dollars in sales, you would think mysql would only be financially successful if it sold the actual database product. Then again, we wouldn't want another fork of BSD where it was a separate distro that you had to pay for support for, like "Redhat BSD" or something cheesy like that.
