From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 18:38:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14174 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 18:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hwcn.org (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA14056 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 01:37:16 GMT (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by hwcn.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA02285; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:31:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:31:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: esr@thyrsus.com cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products In-Reply-To: <19980413201541.65522@snark.thyrsus.com> 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 Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Linux, because (a) I believe you, and (b) it doesn't matter. I think I > saw "Mene, mene, tekel, uparshin" on your wall when you guys failed to "parsin", I think, although for all I know "uparshin" could be a legitimate alternative. :) > outgrow Linux 0.99 back in 1994. But if anyone can spin a plausible > scenario under which the BSDs survive the next three years, I'd really > love to hear it.) If you want Linux to destroy the BSDs, you have to find a scenario where Linux is technically superiour (in almost all ways) to the BSDs. Unless that happens, there will always be a market segment that prefers us. Doesn't mean we'll have the same size, of course. :-) Now, if you talk 10 years, that's much harder to predict. I will be interested in the future then, but over three years, not much interesting will happen. :) -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message