Fwd: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

Anthony Atkielski atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr
Fri Feb 25 12:10:59 GMT 2005


Daniel writes:

> well, if a big company pays for support, those money would allow
> FreeBSD to have some more people (developers or not) focus on giving
> the support (fixing/answering) while the developers do their job...i
> believe this is quite natural course of action

Paying for support would rapidly generate a conflict of interest, in
that it would encourage the production of buggy software in order to
increase support revenues (the only revenues the software generates).

-- 
Anthony




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