RE: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:02 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? Daniel writes: would not these things be worthy

Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-25 Thread Daniel
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:48:05 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister wrote: would not these things be worthy of implementing in FreeBSD? this way other big companies would use it, pay you guys for it and FreeBSD will grow stronger... making a good OS that runs on cheap, low-end machines is nice,

RE: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniel Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 12:04 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? by making money i did not meant necessarily big bank acocunts

Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-25 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Friday 25 February 2005 12:04 am, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i hardly think that companies that use and enhance FreeBSD adding features that they (and maybe others) need, would submit back those enhacements - BSD license... Happens all the time - the goodwill is stronger than the

Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-25 Thread Daniel
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:02:20 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: would not these things be worthy of implementing in FreeBSD? this way other big companies would use it, pay you guys for it and FreeBSD will grow stronger... There are other obstacles to deployment of FreeBSD in large

Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-25 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: Daniel, if I'm running a big company and I pay a developer a chunk of change for a distributed FreeBSD server manager program, or some such thing like that, I am not going to pay them if they are going to take the money and run out and work on their own projects.

Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-25 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Daniel writes: well, if a big company pays for support, those money would allow FreeBSD to have some more people (developers or not) focus on giving the support (fixing/answering) while the developers do their job...i believe this is quite natural course of action Paying for support would

Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-25 Thread Daniel
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:10:57 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: well, if a big company pays for support, those money would allow FreeBSD to have some more people (developers or not) focus on giving the support (fixing/answering) while the developers do their job...i believe this is quite

Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-25 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Daniel writes: my scenario was this: i'm a big company and i use FreeBSD coz it suites best for my needs; let's say among others that my/a programming team built something on top of it ; because i want the system to work as flawless as possible i pay a monthly fee for support - say some 4

RE: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: Daniel, if I'm running a big company and I pay a developer a chunk of change for a distributed FreeBSD server manager program, or some such thing like that, I am not going to pay them if they are going to take the money and run out and work

Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-25 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: What the contracting company then does with the code is their own business. It's not giving it away for free. Contractors are even worse than their clients. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-24 Thread Daniel
sorry, i should have sent this to entire list... On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:43:32 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote among others... FreeBSD does not have some of the things - such as distributed management of hundreds to thousands of FreeBSD servers over a large enterprise - that are a requirement

Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
sorry, i should have sent this to entire list... On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:43:32 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote among others... FreeBSD does not have some of the things - such as distributed management of hundreds to thousands of FreeBSD servers over a large enterprise - that are a

Re: Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-24 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Daniel writes: would not these things be worthy of implementing in FreeBSD? this way other big companies would use it, pay you guys for it and FreeBSD will grow stronger... There are other obstacles to deployment of FreeBSD in large organizations. The main one is a lack of formal, guaranteed