I dont think a separated business growing around that would be a good ideia? I don't really think so. I am not saying this happened to other projects like FreeBSD, but i switched from FreeBSD to OpenBSD exactly because much of what i saw the first time i started with FreeBSD i could not see since that's time i switched to OpenBSD. Many of my feeling on FreeBSD has been lost since so far. OpenBSD folks, i my point of view, take the right road. I believe they have a strong conviction on the values i don't bargain that.
I see very positively, behavior like the one that decided to remove ahc driver support. Of course it is not all good, but i pay the price. I like openbsd just because the project "its" view of the surround environment/world is not the common (to not say another world) view shared by many alternatives around, including garbage like Linux. OpenBSD may not be perfect, and in this sense, i label it the less imperfect OS for my needs of confidence and peace of mind. I would really love to use it for everything my needs could be. I cannot use it in a multitera byte storage server nor in a 64 processor sparc box, but i do love it. There many thing i believe it could get a better support, real SMP (HIGH performance) kernel, and File System for instance. Anyhow, as i have already stated, i go for OpenBSD. 2005/11/29, Qv6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 28 November 2005 08:10 pm, pete wright wrote: > > On 11/28/05, Qv6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Monday 28 November 2005 04:04 pm, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > This is why OpenBSD/OpenSSH does not need to hire a spin doctor. > > > > > > > > Other people do it for us ;) > > > > > > > > http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/article/684/ > > > > > > > > And... thanks to those of you who supported us when they were > > > > threatening to sue us years ago.. > > > > > > Intersting news. > > > > > > I once worked for a major Telecom firm that used a commercial > > > implementation of ssh. I was curious and I asked one of the other > > > techies why pay for ssh when openssh is available. "Because we can > > > go to the company for support" was his answer. > > > > > > I couldn't help but wonder what type of issues people encounter > > > while using openssh. Aside from the usuall software bugs, has there > > > really been any major problems with openssh that the community has > > > not fixed promptly? > > > > Not that I don't think openssh is superior for the fact that it *is* > > open software, I bet that the company in question needs software > > support lisc. for legal issues. If the software goes tit's up and > > costs the company N dollar's it is easier to get that money from a > > commercial entity whom you have a contract with (or more likely get > > money via a insurance broker of some sort). At least that's the best > > I've been able to see through that line of reasoning :^) > > > > Seriously! How many companies have actually received money from, say, > Microsoft for an os or app software that crashes repeatedly, or gets > hit by a major virus attack? You never get your money back. You just > get support based on your support contract. > > Has any company ever approached the openssh dev team and offered to buy > a support contract from them? Did they refuse? > > Come to think of it, why doesn't the openssh team sell support contracts > to companies that want it? Or maybe they already do. > > Take a look at Mysql. It started as the work of a couple of guys. Now it > is a major enterprise and lots of companies use their product. Openssh > comes bundled with every Open Source OS, and some companies ship it > with their products, too. So the install base is fairly broad, and I > think a separate business can grow around that. > > Just my $0.02
