Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 22:24:36 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Stephane Legrand <stephane@lituus.fr> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Linux is UNIX, and FreeBSD is not?" Message-ID: <3617.897110676@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Jun 1998 01:04:04 %2B0200." <199806052304.BAA00928@sequoia.lituus.fr>
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> But if Linux finally get this validation, could/should this decision be > reconsidered ? > > And did FreeBSD (stable and/or current) have a good chance to obtain > this kind of validation in a technical point of view ? If the validation process is both A) Free and B) does not require a lot of someone's valuable time, then sure. Otherwise I think it's a mark of rapidly diminishing worth, especially now that "Unix" is actually more of a dirty word in various circles what with Microsoft's marketing campaign against it (anyone see Dell's anti-Unix advert in the now-subverted Unix Review magazine?) and the work of various other NT booster groups. Those who are left who still believe in Unix, you find, are people who believe in the Unix *concept* and could truly give a fig about the brand itself. The brand was something you used to use to convince clueless suits, but the clueless suits have already been told that "Unix is bad" by their various Microsoft yes-men and yes-magazines and this just isn't as valuable anymore. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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