From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 1 6:32:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [63.86.88.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0B7D37B403 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 06:32:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9352F7565; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 06:32:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF271D8F; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 06:32:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 06:32:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Don Wilde Cc: Mike Meyer , Giorgos Keramidas , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux markets (Was: Microsoft giving back to FreeBSD !!) In-Reply-To: <3B3E6941.C822FFB3@Silver-Lynx.com> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Don Wilde wrote: :Mike Meyer wrote: :> :> Don Wilde types: : :> > The reality is that the Linux/BSD/BEos/XXX market IS tiny :> > except for those outside the "West", and they don't pay cash. :> :> "Tiny" doesn't mean "worthless". Adobe is still developing and :> maintaining Frame for Solaris, HP-UX and AIX, at least on non-intel :> hardware. The the Windows and MacIntosh versions may be required to :> make the Unix version pay for itself. :> :Granted, but Solaris and HP-UX and AIX users are used to paying for s/w, :and have been brainwashed into believing that payware is going to be :better than freeware. As have their bosses who approve the invoices. You come off like you have an axe to grind. Put it down, breathe, relax, and think. Commercial software does not automaticly equal bad software anymore than Open Source automaticly equals good software. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message