Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:23:05 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: rootman <rootman@xmission.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Justification for using FreeBSD Message-ID: <3B297F99.D8D5059B@iowna.com> References: <01061417404103.00261@blackmirror.xmission.com> <3B294D78.2F1390E@iowna.com> <01061419302201.00346@blackmirror.xmission.com>
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[copied this back to the list so others with stories could chime in] rootman wrote: > > Thanks Bill, > > Can you elaborate on #2? > > 2. FreeBSD/Apache is more standards compliant Do you remember the JAVA/JScript thing? Sun was going to sue M$ for using the JAVA logo when their products weren't really JAVA compliant. Instead of fixing the problem, M$ came up with the JScript (or is it Visual J++ - can't remember the exact name) thing. It's named that to intentionally confuse people via the marketing. Applications written in JAVA run on J++ enabled platforms, but apps written in J++ don't work under JAVA enabled platforms. This way, M$ makes their point that M$ products work with M$ products. They try to leverage their dominance in the browser market to help out their ailing Web server market (M$ only has ~20% of the web servers, whereas Apache has over 60%) Look at KAME. Because of KAME, FreeBSD (as well as Linux and the other BSDs) are fully IPv6 ready. So the FreeNix systems are already prepared for the next generation of the Internet protocols. Where is M$ IPv6 support? Dial out to the internet using a m$ product and start a large download, then unplug the phone and plug it back in. The download will be ABORTED and you'll have to restart it. This is a VIOLATION of TCP protocol standards. TCP is a RELIABLE protocol. Do the same thing with a BSD machine. Once you plug the phone line back in the system will dial back out and the donwloald will be automagically re-established - picking up where it left off. This is in compliance with TCP standards. There are probably more examples ... that's just what came to mind. -Bill -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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