From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 10 01:42:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02783 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 01:42:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [129.72.251.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02762; Sun, 10 May 1998 01:42:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16237; Sun, 10 May 1998 02:39:37 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199805100839.CAA16237@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 02:39:35 -0600 To: Jason Nordwick , The Classiest Man Alive From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Linux as a Mozilla total reference platform Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980510022104.11547.qmail@xcf.berkeley.edu> References: <199805100051.UAA12852@zephyr.cybercom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:21 AM 5/10/98 +0000, Jason Nordwick wrote: >You'll probably just get the same B.S. that everybody else is >giving: they don't want to get involve in any BSD vs. BSD or >Linux vs. BSD things, which is just blatanly wrong, we are all >grownup here. Well, in a sense, it's true. They DON'T want to get involved in any "Linux vs. BSD things." They want to pick the best seller, just as they did with Windows, and support it -- whether or not it is the best choice. FreeBSD has about a year to achieve near-parity with Linux or it may be in trouble because of this pattern of behavior. Think it can be done? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message