From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 19 1:13:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ftf.dk (mail.ftf.net [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05BA1526D for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:13:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from regnauld@ftf.net) Received: from ns.int.ftf.net (fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged)) by mail.ftf.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/gw-ftf-1.2) with ESMTP id KAA03034; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:12:13 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.ftf.dk: Host fw2.ftf.dk [192.168.1.2] (may be forged) claimed to be ns.int.ftf.net Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by ns.int.ftf.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) id KAA33929; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:25:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19991119102553.57394@ns.int.ftf.net> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:25:53 +0100 From: Phil Regnauld To: David Scheidt Cc: David Schwartz , Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marketing vs. technical superiority (was: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit") References: <000001bf3229$307560b0$021d85d1@youwant.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from David Scheidt on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:25:32PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386 Organization: FTFnet Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Scheidt writes: > > Most of them manage to do it in a more sane fashion, though. .DLLs suck. The official way is to install the app. Lots of unofficial changes are made through hotfixes, SPs, etc... Like the MS 95 Plus Pack which also fixed a lot of problems and missing features. That's a blatant example of "pay for fixes". -- Y et A nother RedHat buys Cygnus L inux T akeover A lliance To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message