Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

Frank Laszlo laszlof at tvog.net
Fri Feb 11 13:34:44 PST 2005


Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

>
> On Feb 11, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>
>> Since when did FreeBSD, a project always driven by volunteers and not 
>> by commercial matters, suddenly gain a marketing department that is 
>> trying to steer FreeBSD into the business sector?  Is FreeBSD 
>> starting to have marketing dictate technology instead of technology 
>> dictate marketing?
>
>
> Sorry, but this does not make sense.
>
> FreeBSD is driven by commercial matters.  Many of the people that work 
> on it are paid to work on it by their employers, who are using it 
> commercially.   FreeBSD will wither away if it does not continue to 
> receive extensive commercial support like Linux gets.

I wouldnt say many, there are few commiters who are actually paid to 
work on it, most commiters/developers do it as a hobby.


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