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From: Steve Ames <steve@cioe.com>
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To: alex@cichlids.com, mvergall@double-barrel.be
Subject: Re: Linux not FreeBSD?
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> > > Yes but unfortunatly this could happen because the FreeBSD community does
> > > not have "Big commercial names" behind them and no commercial entity
> > > behind them to promote it as a viable alternative...I personally find this
> > > to be rediculous but...
> > 
> > Does the FreeBSD community want this?
>
> Personally I would say that the FreeBSD community does not need it.

Hrm... I would say the FreeBSD community _DOES NEED_ high-end, commercial
application support. What's the use of having the best OS if you can't
run the best applications on it? How many of us have an NT and/or Linux
box on hand just to run apps that won't run on FreeBSD. Or if they do
run, they don't run well?

> > Such a user hype as there is on linux brings much people who never
> > think of reading a handbook etc.
>
> This is only one of the reasons why I don't like to see this happen the
> other is all the commercial interests will eventually be detremental to
> Linux as a OS.

Perhaps. I'd like to think that Linus won't allow this to happen. While
we're waiting to see if this interest is detremental to the OS we can
also watch as major sofware vendors start viewing unix (yeah, yeah) as
a viable market again.

						-Steve


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