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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 2000 06:42:52 -0800
From:      "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>
To:        "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        "Alexander Rudak" <ru@ro.com.ua>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Message-ID:  <00ab01c04fdb$7fb38f00$aa240018@cx443070b>
References:  <13407.001114@ro.com.ua> <20001114000357.A11449@fw.wintelcom.net> <20001115004325.B1194@hades.hell.gr>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc: "Alexander Rudak" <ru@ro.com.ua>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux


> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:03:57AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >* Alexander Rudak <ru@ro.com.ua> [001113 23:46] wrote:
> >> and almost every serious company has Linux version of its product (?).
> >
> > That's untrue, there are tons of companies neglegting the Linux
community
> > just as much as the FreeBSD project.
>
> This does not imply the inverse though, that there are no companies that
do
> not neglect Linux.  You are being unfair here, Alfred.  The man just noted
> that there are lots of companies that have Linux-versions of their
products
> and do not have native FreeBSD versions too.  Although his statement is
not
> false, it is not true for the entirety of companies either.  Are we
playing
> hide n' seek with words here?

That depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.  (William Jefferson
Clinton)

> and almost every serious company has Linux version of its product (?).

While not entirely untrue, this is a huge generalization.  How many
companies actually develop Linux versions ?  You can point to the big names,
but in the end you can't say every "serious" company.  There are thousands
and thousands of software companies and I'm sure they wouldn't appriciate
people saying they weren't serious.





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