Nicole wrote:
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Hernandez wrote:
On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Matt, I'm wondering how many people are behind the Mall, what
the
order statistics are, and how much the income is. If the Mall is
just
a secondary job, and you donate a considerable excess amount, then
I
have to respect, but also criticize that. The good thing is about
*you* supporting the Project, is that *you* can chose what parts
of
development to encourage. If you donate raw cash, they will spend
it
on ice cream ;), if you donate a piece of hardware, they will
utilize
that thing for testing, which is good if your company relies
heavily
on FreeBSD driver efficiency and stability for that type of piece.
However, if you really encourage advertising FreeBSD, you should
make
promo stuff as cheap as possible.
All the while you can still download the releases for free so what
are
you complaining about anyway? At first I thought you were just
asking a
question and trying to gain insight but now I see you're just
trolling.
I don't really understand what you are trying to gain through this
ranting.
And I actually was. I don't know where you detect offensive speech.
You must be
misunderstanding something. Or I don't care how you look at my
messages, even it
it's like This is an unmoderated freebsd-chat, and I'm trolling all
over it, sue
me...
If you want to use FreeBSD, you can, and for free. Same for
NetBSD, OpenBSD, various distributions of Linux...... what's the
problem? You can't realistically expect to get everything for no
cost.
Or maybe you need clarification between the terms - Free does not
necessarily mean "at no cost to you" (although as you know you can
still
download and use FreeBSD at virtually no cost to you....)
Thanks, but that was evident to me. I may be a FreeBSD newbie, but
I'm not THAT
much of a newbie.
I would like to add on, point out, that cdrom.com was likely one of
the sole reasons FreeBSD is here today. They supported FreeBSD and gave
it marketing and a face. How? Via your purchases, back before you could
so easily download it.
Now, yes, prices have gone up, or at least feel that way. But even if
you, as an individual feel that its worth saving 40.00 to max out your
DSL for a a bit and make a few cds at home, if you use FreeBSD at your
company, you should get them to subscribe to the CD's! Maybe as an
individual it's not cost effective for you. But there is no reason to
let your company off the hook if you can help it.
Nicole
Good points. Kind of what I asked for in the first place.
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