Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:29:17 +0100 (BST) From: Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com> To: steve@cioe.com (Steve Ames) Cc: alex@cichlids.com, mvergall@double-barrel.be, gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux not FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199906151629.RAA26193@ideaglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <199906151614.LAA53574@ns1.cioe.com> from "Steve Ames" at Jun 15, 99 11:14:01 am
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> > > > > Yes but unfortunatly this could happen because the FreeBSD community does > > > > not have "Big commercial names" behind them and no commercial entity > > > > behind them to promote it as a viable alternative...I personally find this > > > > to be rediculous but... > > > > > > Does the FreeBSD community want this? > > > > Personally I would say that the FreeBSD community does not need it. > > Hrm... I would say the FreeBSD community _DOES NEED_ high-end, commercial > application support. What's the use of having the best OS if you can't > run the best applications on it? How many of us have an NT and/or Linux > box on hand just to run apps that won't run on FreeBSD. Or if they do > run, they don't run well? > > > > Such a user hype as there is on linux brings much people who never > > > think of reading a handbook etc. > > > > This is only one of the reasons why I don't like to see this happen the > > other is all the commercial interests will eventually be detremental to > > Linux as a OS. > > Perhaps. I'd like to think that Linus won't allow this to happen. While > we're waiting to see if this interest is detremental to the OS we can > also watch as major sofware vendors start viewing unix (yeah, yeah) as > a viable market again. OTOH, how much good will it do have umpteen distributions of FreeBSD ? That will be unavoidable, i would think....Although I DO think that a bit more "marketing" won't do much harm. > -Steve > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message can we please move this thread to -chat ? Kiril To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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