On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:02:28 -0500 Jerry <ges...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Market share increases by making your product more accessible and > usable by a larger group of users. > you make a good point here, jerry. what i'm wondering about though is if the 'normal' business model should be applied to fbsd or any opensource stuff in the first place.
for instance, opensource 'employees' are volunteers whereas the other guys are salaried or on contract. they advertize, while we advocate. and of course they harbor trade secrets, while opensource is open (especially the bsd license). so perhaps the objective of being 'more accessible and usable' really means something a bit different here. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"