Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:45:49 -0400 From: Lee Cremeans <lee@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> To: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, esr@snark.thyrsus.com Subject: Re: Open Source Products Message-ID: <19980414014549.20496@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> In-Reply-To: <19980414065232.07017@doriath.org>; from Anatoly Vorobey on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 06:52:32AM %2B0000 References: <199804131719.LAA21122@narnia.plutotech.com> <35326353.4E30451B@xylan.com> <19980413201541.65522@snark.thyrsus.com> <3532AD36.2968F8B6@xylan.com> <19980413215647.37918@snark.thyrsus.com> <19980414065232.07017@doriath.org>
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On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 06:52:32AM +0000, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > What I used to hear back then from friends of mine who were > sympathetic to Linux but certain it would fail were exactly these > things. Microsoft is everywhere, they were saying, and Linux won't > be able to keep up even with new hardware on the PC market. And > what about Word or Excel? And even if Linux manages to survive > on some hackers' desks, NT (or 95) will be everywhere in 3 years, > you just won't notice Linux, it'll be so insignificant. What a > striking similarity to what I hear today from some Linux advocates! On a related (if off-topic) note, this reminds me a lot of the constant OS/2 Warp-vs.-Win3.1 holy wars of 1994-1995...the difference here is that since OS/2 wasn't (and isn't, and will probably never be) a free, open-source product, the people who were fans of it couldn't directly influence its direction--that was in the hands of IBM alone, and they botched what could ahve been an excellent lead, and a great stand against Win95. Linux and *BSD don't have this problem; as long as they have supporters, like me for example, they WILL NOT die because of the openness and sharing-orientedness of the software--they don't have their very existence tied to a board of directors at some large corporation. -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac/95/96 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | lcremean@tidalwave.net FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://st-lcremean.tidalwave.net/~lee | finger me for geek code To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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