Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 17:04:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Remy NONNENMACHER <remy@synx.com> To: dwilde1@ibm.net Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, opsys@mail.webspan.net, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *sigh* Anyone else see this article? Message-ID: <9805091655.aa15493@s3.synx.com> In-Reply-To: <3553C473.ECA1CD5E@ibm.net>
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On 8 May, Don Wilde wrote: > 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. > I'm not really sure users want universality. They would not stick so massively with wintel. FreeBSD can lead the server group by focusing effort on SMP, high-end processors (PII,ALPHA,MERCED no more, no less), GUI for administration, new filesystems types, etc... and let linux lead the workstation group where brightness, PR, versatility is needed but so energy-consuming. Linux success will help us in two ways: getting users out of the M$ integrism and having them adopt the idea that free software *IS* better than proprietary. For the moment, the war is M$ vs Linux. Let's keep away from shrapnels and let's be prepared to grap the NT portion of the future defunct. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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