From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 17 21:51:54 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 21:51:51 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F78C37B402 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:51:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 147s7I-0000Bi-00; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:41:40 -0700 Sender: wes@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3A3D9584.3877BA39@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:41:40 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Jordan Hubbard , Patryk Zadarnowski , Tony Finch , SteveB , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel type References: <85112.977020676@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001217014337.C72273@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 06:37:56PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > It's hardly arbitrary, though the jury's still out as to whether it's > > misguided or not. You may remember that Apple bought a little company > > called NeXT a few years back. Well, that company's people had a lot > > to do with the OS design of OS X and let's not forget the design of > > NeXTStep. > > ... and how currently popular they[NeXT] are. ;-> Yeah, about as popular as, say, FreeBSD? Bill, you know popularity and even success in the market have little to do with competence. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message