Re: Using a FreeBSD desktop was somehting about dog food

On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 7:06 PM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:

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> On 3/27/22 16:49, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
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> I am always mentioning that  without a sufficiently  large user base ,
> approximately
> a large number of companies will not be interested in FreeBSD  because
> they will
> not be able to sell products to FreeBSD users to recover their expenses .
> I am a subscriber of many FreeBSD mailing lists .  It is very easy to
> store a
> copy of mailing list archives by using  "wget" .
> If we count  the current FreeBSD users , we will see that the number ( NOT
> value ) of
> them is small .  Newcomers are  very rare .
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> There are several companies that use and support FreeBSD on the back-end:
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>     https://freebsdfoundation.org/
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> Some of the few that come to mind:
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>    - Juniper
>    - NetApp
>    - Netflix
>    - Verisign
>
> Mark.
>


In  my previous message to your message I explicitly said my opinion :

I am NOT intending these beautiful companies and others behaving like them ,
but ( real and legal ) persons earning money from usage of FreeBSD ,
they have means to  contribute to FreeBSD and
they are NOT making contributions .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk