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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.Brown.EDU!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Stable *BSD for Intel Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 12:01:57 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 19 Message-ID: <pA+qP71.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <2l4r3i$cb6@hq.hq.af.mil> <2l81of$rmp@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <2lm248$22a@fw.novatel.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1b.delphi.com X-To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@sidney> Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@sidney> writes: >I once had a car salesman tell me that the line of automobiles he was >presenting were undoubtedly the most reliable and economical line of >cars on the planet. This to me was an instant indication that he knew >absolutely nothing about cars; so I left his lot and bought elsewhere. Invalid analogy :-) The difference is that the car salesman had nothing to do with the design and did not contribute to the development of the car -- he just had a profit motive. Most of us working on *BSD (Free or Net) are not directly making money on it. It is mostly a labor of love. Many of us are actually working very hard on a cooperative effort. Many times when people do things that they love, they do a wonderful job at it. In FreeBSD our goal is the most reliable and highest performance that the platform can provide. It is not perfect, but some versions of *BSD are more/less perfect than others :-). Lets have fun!!! John dyson@implode.root.com