From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Feb 23 0: 9:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA631130D; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:09:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA16573; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:39:16 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA49981; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:39:10 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990223183910.P93492@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:39:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: FreeBSD advocacy list , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Bill Gates: "FreeBSD is our competitor" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In an otherwise forgettable interview with Bill Gates published in issue 4/1999 of the German magazine c't, I note the following question and answer fragment: c't: How much competition does Linux really pose to Windows NT? More and more large companies are using Linux. Could that become dangerous for NT? Gates: Windows NT has always had some competition. FreeBSD has been around for a long time. Apache, free software, has been used by large companies for a long time. Maybe you have only noticed it now. We have had competition from free software for a long time. Our job is to do the things that people expect from an operating system [excuse me while a laugh myself silly. Ah, that's better] and to bring it to a completely new level. That is what we're doing with Windows 2000. That is what we will do if future versions. [More stuff omitted. He did *not* mention Linux in his answer. This is pretty typical of the interview, which I found a bit disappointing. The interviewers could have really hammered him in a couple of places, but if they did, they didn't publish it]. For those of you who read c't, it's in the middle of the right-hand column on page 20. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message