From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 19:48:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 275E437B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 19:48:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 77074 invoked by uid 100); 17 Nov 2000 03:48:08 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14868.43640.391071.629580@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:48:08 -0600 (CST) To: "Jeremiah Gowdy" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux In-Reply-To: <56344980@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremiah Gowdy types: > > 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. Yeah - how can you claim that the worlds largest software company isn't serious? They produce versions of some of their products for Solaris/SPARC, but not for Linux or Solaris/x86. That Linux and Solaris/x86 are in direct competition with their main product has nothing to do with how serious they are.