Where is FreeBSD going?

[Leo Bicknell]

In a message written on Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:22:44AM -0500, Lanny Baron wrote:
> Just what we are wondering. Where is all the FreeBSD community support 
> for a Server company that fully supports FreeBSD? It certainly is not in 
> this letter.

Disclaimer:  Until this message I didn't know www.FreeBSDsystems.com
existed, and I know nothing about them other than what the front
page of their web server has on it.

I believe you've missed the point completely.  Building a new server
farm is an important, but specialized niche.  Sure I can buy hardware
that is only 100% fully supported.  I may have to pay a little more,
but to some degree that's ok.

The point is that the person trying FreeBSD at home (where Linux
is a competitor), or wanting to put it on their desktop at work
(where IT just gave them a PC with windows, and the boss will let
them run FreeBSD, but won't buy yet another PC to do it) suffer.
OS's like FreeBSD and Linux make their way into the enterprise from
the ground up, running on the old leftover box in the corner.

So, do I support companies like (but not specifically)
www.freebsdsystems.com, sure.  Does that mean the freebsd development
team can forget about all the other hardware out there in massive
quantities, heck no.

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