From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 12 05:06:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA29771 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 05:06:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from csnet.cs.technion.ac.il (csnet.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA29764 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 05:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nadav@cs.technion.ac.il) Received: from csd.csa (csd [132.68.32.8]) by csnet.cs.technion.ac.il (8.6.11/8.6.10) with ESMTP id PAA08123; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:05:43 +0300 Received: from localhost by csd.csa (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA03567; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:05:50 +0300 Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:05:50 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: Brett Glass cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Mark Mayo , kris@airnet.net, David Shanes , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" In-Reply-To: <199804121148.FAA27199@lariat.lariat.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:41 AM 4/12/98 +0300, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > >Linux is very strong here, and I could not persuade > >the faculty to use FreeBSD for the purpose. Their main points were the > >better availability of user-level docs, and the better support students > >willget from other students that already know Linux. > > In that case, why didn't they use Microsoft Windows? ;-( To be honest, that was what they intended to do before I talked to them, and before Micro$oft told them that to give away NT, Office, Visual C++ and Visual J++ to students will cost them a few hundred $$$s in educational licenses (per copy) and will take some 16 CDs... > > This is the sort of attitude I fear if FreeBSD isn't seen as SUPERIOR > to, not just the equal of, Linux. Among the lemming-like masses, > no one goes with an also-ran. > > It's time to hustle. > > --Brett Glass > > Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message