Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

[jan gestre]

On 7/28/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad at shire.net> wrote:
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> On Jul 27, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Born, Clinton wrote:
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> > Really? I wouldn't want such a myopic view when choosing to
> > allocate our
> > shareholders dollars. Best tool for the job. Period!
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> That is not as easy as you make it out to be.  WHat one might in the
> short term see as the best tool may not be such in 2 years when
> support is dropped and you are in a forced obsolescence and have to
> replace it with something else...  So making value judgments like
> tools that are known to be well supported on FReeBSD for example is
> part of determining the best tool for the job
>
> these are FUD!

always think positive and don't be a cynic. nobody knows what will happen
two years from now, right?