[Pcbsd-developer] Re: PCBSD-Developer digest, Vol 1 #46 - 2 msgs

[Charles A. L. <lan...@gm...>]

I find the PC-BSD project and it's community wonderful and promising,
given the progress in one year of hard work. In every project, people
always ask for more, and that's good. I personnally work in the
software industry and I know how long it takes to develop little
applications with a team of full-time developpers. Also, C++
programming is really hard, it's hard to find paid good C++ devs, and
it's even harder to find volunteers. C++ development is one of the
hardest way of developing applications (but the most performant).

We can't compare a millionaire company such as Red Hat or Apple to a
community project such as PC-BSD. We need to be realistic. I'm pretty
confident that with the momentum PC-BSD is having lately, we're
driving more people and soon there will be more developpers and more
people to help in other areas. PC-BSD is a company that has
expenditures and I think it's more than normal that it sells paid
support, CD-ROMs, etc... After all, a company will choose the OS
vendor that it can trust and that will be of help when they have a
problem with their computer.

PC-BSD is a large system, and I guess a lot of the processes are
automated with shell scripts to turn a FreeBSD system into a PC-BSD
system quickly, still, our team can't go as fast as a full-time 50
developpers team. I suggest we keep united to make PC-BSD better and
better day by day, bring more people to help, and in the long run we
will have a solid OS ;)

Andrei, please be patient, I know you want PC-BSD to thrive, and we're
getting there step by step. You're already helping the project
tremendously helping people in the forum, sorting out bugs, giving us
interesting ideas, and we are more than grateful for all that. I'm
sure you know what I mean :)

Thanks you all for your support, any help is always appreciated,

-- 
Charles A. Landemaine.