What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

[User Freebsd]

'k, there are at least two "clients" already in existence ... and, in 
fact, the one that I posted the URL about even has Protocol information 
included, so we *should* be able to avoid recreating the wheel here, only 
extend it ...

I should *not* be a mandatory ... then we're as bad as other companies 
that are into embedding 'spyware' ... it should be an opt-in sort of 
thing, but something that is included as part of the OS, just like 
ntpdate ... something a simple addition to /etc/rc.conf would enable, 
*or*, even have it enabled by default, but easy to *disable* ...

As for older releases, that would fall under a verison available in ports, 
that could be downloaded and run ...

There has to be conscious involvement from the community as a whole in 
this though ...

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, kevlar Hodge-Podge wrote:

> I just want to see if I understand the issue correctly.
>
>> From what it sounds like there would need to both be a server for all the 
> individual machines to connect to, and some sort of scripted client to 
> capture info on the machine and send it to the server. When asking about 
> older machines such as the RELENG_4 mail server mentioned, wouldn’t that 
> person have to go back and in stall this software on the machine? Also if 
> this project were to work, it would almost have to be placed as a high 
> priority install, if not almost mandatory. When and how often would the 
> client contact the server? Every reboot would seem like a good time, but 
> possibly more often. Would it be possible to modify a very thin email client 
> to work as the client, meaning the server would send an email, and when 
> received it would prompt you “would you like to send uptime/user data now?” 
> perhaps even being able to choose what types of data to send. I think the 
> average person would be more likely to send more info if they knew exactly 
> what was being sent.
>
>
>
>> From: Darren <freebsd at bitfreak.org>
>> Reply-To: freebsd-advocacy at freebsd.org
>> To: User Freebsd <freebsd at hub.org>
>> CC: freebsd-advocacy at freebsd.org, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs at flat.berklix.net>
>> Subject: Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?
>> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:23:12 -0700
>> 
>> User Freebsd wrote:
>>> Who *big* recognizes FreeBSD as a viable operating system, at least 
>>> openly?
>> 
>> When PHK asked the FreeBSD community to donate USD16,500-33000 so he could 
>> spend 3-6 months working regular hours on FreeBSD, Pair Networks (pair.com) 
>> donated USD20,000.
>> 
>> I don't know if that's "recognition as viable" or not, but businesses 
>> generally don't give $20k to anyone without a reasonable expectation of a 
>> solid return on investment.
>> 
>>> Hell, how many ppl are still running 3.x or 4.x systems, vs the newer 
>>> stuff?
>> 
>> I have a few systems running the "final" RELENG_4.  These are only doing so 
>> because they're internal file or mail servers on older hardware. They're 
>> stable, problem free and have low exposure with no applicable security 
>> flaws.  I can't justify depriving a business of critical IT services for 
>> the several hours it will take to do the rebuild.
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