From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 27 08:07:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA28863 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 08:07:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA28852 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 08:06:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mouth@ibm.net) Received: from slip129-37-53-122.ca.us.ibm.net (slip129-37-53-122.ca.us.ibm.net [129.37.53.122]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA138060 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 16:06:47 GMT From: mouth@ibm.net (John Kelly) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will we make freebsd a popular OS? Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 17:08:04 GMT Message-ID: <3457c793.7753542@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> References: <3456b1a5.2139218@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> <19971027094304.25152@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <19971027094304.25152@right.PCS> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA28859 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:43:04 -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >Can you just imagine the increase in overall quality >and stability of M$ products if it had a BSD codebase? :-) They would probably find a way to make a royal mess of it. It often happens in business that some small company which has terrific products and service is swallowed by a company much larger, and its former quality quickly falls into an abyss of mediocrity. But people still buy the junk because of the name recognition of the large company. John