From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 1 11:50:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A83E153FD for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 11:50:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA01885; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:49:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:49:01 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Wes Peters Cc: Don Wilde , "Robert A. Bruce" , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Linux PR firestorm disaster (w.r.t. FreeBSD) In-Reply-To: <36DAE5C3.C1B6182B@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shame on me - I didn't read this thread of discussion completely. I hope, I don't state anything which has already been discussed. I'm convinced the FreeBSD is superior to Linux if we discuss technical questions. But the world isn't really interested in. The success of the Microsoft systems does illustrate it. The main of advantage of Linux is its ongoing success in the commercial scene because people deciding for Linux feel calmed by the existence of RedHat or Caldera. For them Linux is now more reliable, it's nearly like a commercial operating system. We don't want that for FreeBSD. But in the long term one or two or three Linux distributions will even go more commercial and will win the race. FreeBSD will stay a free operating system (I hope so) and will get only a small part of the market. That's what I expect. Nevertheless, let's try to make FreeBSD more popular day by day! :-) Regards // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _____= __=20 // Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __= / _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/= // / // Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___= /____/=20 // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----= - // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message