Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 19:50:27 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *sigh* Anyone else see this article? Message-ID: <3553C473.ECA1CD5E@ibm.net> References: <16619.894675840@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > This is just getting depressing :) > > > > http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12187.html > > Why? Sounds good to me! We can then run all this stuff! > > People have to stop thinking of additional Linux market penetration as > such a bad thing - it's "paving the road" for us in a number of areas > where we'd just plain and simply NOT be able to go otherwise. Do you I agree with that thought, but I see trouble in the longer term. What this is doing is shifting the battlefield, and faster than we would have thought. People will see that it works. NCI will bring out their version with Free/OpenBSD, and Sun will finally open-source the Java OS The new battleground will be hardware which runs free software. The old (software) dinosaurs can't compete in this battleground. M$ will die, because they can't expose the fact that the Emperor has no d*** under his fancy clothes. Hardware architectures will become the next weapons, and (I hate to say it) unless Intel or Oracle really move quickly to dominate this battle, Linux will have the advantage because it runs on all, from StrongARM to P-II. The user wants universality, not ultimate performance. We need to see where we can go in this scenario, where we should position ourselves. --> Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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