From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 30 19:07:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA08976 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:07:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from counterintelligence.ml.org (mdean.vip.best.com [206.86.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA08969 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:07:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by counterintelligence.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA00275; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:07:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:07:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" To: Atipa cc: Simon Shapiro , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Good Lord, Commercial Linux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk That's not what I was really saying. I would be willing to pay a few hundred dollars for freebsd on the alpha with some of the productivity tools (notably staroffice) that caldera linux has, I wonder also if caldera has hacker the 2.0.29 kernel to make i a bit more stable? What about that UNIX compliance tests like the now defunct LinuxFT product which I think was a really good product, of very high quality from what I saw. > > > > a. If it is free it is useless. You get what you pay for. Why would > > anyone give away anything which is of any value? > > > > b. The fewer releases, the more ``stable'' your product. If you doubt > > this statement, search for some high-level sales aids for NiceTry. > > Or Slowlaris, for that matter. > > > > c. BSD came from Berkeley, it is a hack. Linux is systemV like. It has a > > heritage of Large Company. Caldera was founded by Mr. Noorda, he is > > the radical rebel of Corporate America. Made billions with Novell. > > Calder Linux must therfore be a good thing. > >