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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au!azure.dstc.edu.au!leonard From: leonard@dstc.edu.au (David Leonard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Stronghold and other binaries for OpenBSD 2.0 Date: 30 Mar 1997 04:27:27 GMT Organization: CRC for Distributed Systems Technology Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5hkq3f$b37@azure.dstc.edu.au> References: <5hbjqi$20j@ocean.silcom.com> <3339D4C9.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <5hkl95$kaj@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Reply-To: leonard@dstc.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Host: foxtail.dstc.edu.au Authorized-by: Mu the Cat Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:37 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38032 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2906 wjin@cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) writes: > In article <3339D4C9.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >David Carmean wrote: > >> I only became aware of OpenBSD about a week ago, and have limited > >> admin experience and no installation experience with FreeBSD, and > >> no contact whatsoever with NetBSD. > > > >So why not give them all a try? They're free. :) > The *time* he has to spend for all of them is not free. > It is not his purpose of life or his profession to try all of them > and compare, either. :) > I think that this is what many developers of free software > should realize in these fast-pace days. It is the "time, effort", and > "compatibilty" that matters, not the price. free software developers are likely to dispense with the "time is money" adage. after all their time spent does not directly accrue money, so why should it be foremost on their minds? i too say "blah" to these "fast-paced days"! d -- -- David Leonard The University of Queensland david.leonard@dstc.edu.au http://www.dstc.edu.au/~leonard/