Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 20:19:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: dmaddox@scsn.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.7 and COMPAT_43 -Reply Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970514201620.5370A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19970514162302.54539@cola77.scsn.net>
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Do you really attribute NT's success to its lack of confusing kernel options and the like? Come on . . . if NT really tended to DTRT where FreeBSD didn't you'd be using NT instead. On Wed, 14 May 1997, Donald J. Maddox wrote: > I can see that this is about to turn into one of those 'BSD-tradition vs. > common sense' debates, and I have no desire to participate in that; common > sense cannot win because the traditionalists never relent, and without > consensus, the status quo remains just that. > > Meanwhile, WindowsNT's market share continues to climb, supplanting what > *might* have been FreeBSD market share... Too bad for us that they aren't > saddled with a 'traditional' steep learning curve... > > -- > > > Donald J. Maddox > (dmaddox@scsn.net) > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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