realpath(3) et al

[Eric Anderson]

Chris Odell wrote:
>  
>   Corporations - INTERNET Companies...
> 
>   If you look at the big picture, having a O.S. that has been audited
> for issues would actually be cost effective for them. Having to patch a
> machine that is in service causes downtime. 
> 
>   Lets see - 
> 
>   Each machine takes ten (10) minutes of human work to drop into single
> user mode and install new binaries/kernels   
>  
>   The company has one thousand (1000) machines
> 
>   That comes to ten thousand (10000) minutes, broken down to hours - 167
> Hours
> 
>   The average admin say is making forty five (45) dollars a hour - over
> $7000.00 - not including taxes paid by employer.
> 
>   So if one hundred fifty companies donated one thousand dollars (1000)
> it would save them downtime, payroll, and taxes.
> 
>   Just a rough estimate and my 2 cents

Unfortunately, you're assuming there are 150 companies with 1000 FreeBSD 
machines, that have an admin getting paid $90k/yr.

I think you'd have better luck raising $50 from 3000 people to achieve 
that same amount of money, but still I believe it would be very hard.

Eric


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Eric Anderson	   Systems Administrator      Centaur Technology
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