Back in the old days when VA wasn't concerned with stock price and things were truly free (pick your own definition) there wouldn't have been a higher "authority" calling the shots. Andover.net seemed generally interested in getting the info out.
But then VA came along with their "Biggest IPO in history" and started buying up everyone in the name of maintaining "the community". They're so in the crapper right now that they removed Linux from their name and started scrambling to try and make money.
I worked for a startup and we were talking to VA about buying hardware. They weren't terribly interested in dealing with us. They were looking for bigger accounts. Meanwhile there wasn't a lot of bigger accounts using Linux but probably lots of smaller ones.
It's a shame that something good has to suffer because of a company that claimed to be supporting the community but in reality really was only interested in lining their own pockets.
I'm not saying that people shouldn't make money. I am saying that they shouldn't pretend to be something that they're not.
I have been told first hand by some people who work at VA that supporting BSD is something that they've been looking in to and have done a little of in the past.
So I don't think that the possibility of/. switching is all that far-fetched. If it is a April Fools...Kudos to the editors for putting together a rather plausible goof.
For anyone that will go to the grave exclaiming that Linux rules and *BSD sucks, look at the cold hard facts - ftp.cdrom.com/ftp.freesoftware.com's and OpenBSD's track records. I work on Linux and use FreeBSD at home because I prefer it. Maybe the BSDs are not as "bleeding-edge" but they work, plain and simple. No fragmented distributions and code-bases, just cohesive functiong product.
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Back in the old days when VA wasn't concerned with stock price and things were truly free (pick your own definition) there wouldn't have been a higher "authority" calling the shots. Andover.net seemed generally interested in getting the info out. But then VA came along with their "Biggest IPO in history" and started buying up everyone in the name of maintaining "the community". They're so in the crapper right now that they removed Linux from their name and started scrambling to try and make money. I worked for a startup and we were talking to VA about buying hardware. They weren't terribly interested in dealing with us. They were looking for bigger accounts. Meanwhile there wasn't a lot of bigger accounts using Linux but probably lots of smaller ones. It's a shame that something good has to suffer because of a company that claimed to be supporting the community but in reality really was only interested in lining their own pockets. I'm not saying that people shouldn't make money. I am saying that they shouldn't pretend to be something that they're not.
I have been told first hand by some people who work at VA that supporting BSD is something that they've been looking in to and have done a little of in the past.
/. switching is all that far-fetched. If it is a April Fools...Kudos to the editors for putting together a rather plausible goof.
So I don't think that the possibility of
For anyone that will go to the grave exclaiming that Linux rules and *BSD sucks, look at the cold hard facts - ftp.cdrom.com/ftp.freesoftware.com's and OpenBSD's track records. I work on Linux and use FreeBSD at home because I prefer it. Maybe the BSDs are not as "bleeding-edge" but they work, plain and simple. No fragmented distributions and code-bases, just cohesive functiong product.