Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 23:27:55 -0400 From: Leo Papandreou <leo@talcom.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel config script Message-ID: <19990530232755.B18202@homer.talcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905302036400.368-100000@pigstuy.penguinpowered.com>; from Spike on Sun, May 30, 1999 at 09:28:43PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905301716200.10030-100000@bluerose.windmoon.nu> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905302036400.368-100000@pigstuy.penguinpowered.com>
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On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 09:28:43PM -0400, Spike wrote: [...] > I think that in ten years, Linux will be going strong and FreeBSD > will have whithered. I don't think this is because FreeBSD is This ignores the fact that FreeBSD is growing and doing so in part because of a migration of unhappy Linux users. > technically flawed, or that the core team and developers aren't doing > a good enough job. I think this because in the end FreeBSD is going to > lose to Linux if only from the sheer momentum of twenty million rabid > Linux fanatics. And realistically, we aren't doing a damn thing about it. > 100 million Windows users isnt enough quell Linux. 20 million Linux users isnt going to do likewise to FreeBSD. FreeBSD will die when and if something better comes along. Maybe. Meanwhile, since there are no financial imperatives to kill an openly sourced OS, we can continue to expect knowledgeable admins and programmers to keep FreeBSD very much alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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