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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:22:40 +0100
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Freebsd vs. linux
Message-ID:  <1053455065.20050216182240@wanadoo.fr>
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Bart Silverstrim writes:

> Um, no.  OS/2 had the Presentation Manager layer on it for the GUI.

Presentation Manager was an afterthought, once they realized how far
they had gone astray.

> True to a point.  Just because you have a GUI as the primary interface
> it doesn't mean that the OS *must* have crappy administration tools.

True.  But in the case of Windows, that's exactly the situation.  I had
to administer servers with pcAnywhere.  Have you ever used pcAnywhere
over a dial-up line?

> Because we were discussing at that particular point Apple, their GUI,
> their OS.  OS X = Darwin + Aqua.

Let's return to discussion of FreeBSD, then.

> Then once again, they profit from them and continue to profit by their
> recertification.

If they bother to recertify.

> They are human advertisements, they are MS
> evangelists by proxy, they reinforce market position, and they are 
> brainwashed into MS-centric solutions for everything thus encouraging 
> more purchases by the companies they work for/in from MS.

They are not brainwashed by MS.  They were that way long before they
became MCSEs, otherwise they would not have become MCSEs.

-- 
Anthony




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