From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 30 0:54:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D38115398 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:54:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat12.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.204]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id KAA13455 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 10:54:33 +0200 Received: (qmail 10050 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Jan 2000 05:55:07 -0000 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 07:55:07 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: Will Andrews , John Purser , "'freebsd-chat'" Subject: Re: costs for solaris vs windows Message-ID: <20000130075507.A10032@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <20000129165422.I45988@shadow.blackdawn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 09:58:50PM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 09:58:50PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Will Andrews wrote: > > > I don't care about comparisons between Windows something and some > > commercial Unix. I would only care if they were making valid > > comparisons between SomeOS and FreeBSD. And if they actually > > published details. > > Well, i just think most people won't be that discerning when they read > reports that Windows is cheaper to run than Unix. To most people, > Unix is Unix. It is tough enough explaining that Linux is not Unix, > let alone FreeBSD. Of course, we really *are* unix. ;-) I only recently remember someone on a Greek Linux mailing list supporting that "well, since Linux is Unix is shares the history of Unix, and it's not to be considered as something new". After trying to explain to thim that learning from the history of others does not mean that you actually /have/ the same history with them, what's more you don't just go around claiming that you have /their/ history. This is the kind of folk that I started seeing attracted to linux, and it scares me... but this ain't a Linux list, so who the bloody hell cares. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > "Don't let your schooling interfere with your education." [Mark Twain] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message