From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Sep 21 4:51:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from slkcpop5.slkc.uswest.net (slkcpop5.slkc.uswest.net [206.81.128.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEFD237B423 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 04:51:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2012 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2000 11:51:49 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 1996 invoked by uid 0); 21 Sep 2000 11:51:48 -0000 Received: from badialup189.slkc.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (63.225.236.189) by slkcpop5.slkc.uswest.net with SMTP; 21 Sep 2000 11:51:48 -0000 Message-ID: <39C9F55E.E3D6917D@uswest.net> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 05:47:42 -0600 From: Joe Warner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Just Imagine.. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The other day, I was thinking about how big companies like IBM, have extended and embraced Linux. Now, most of you will probably shudder and shake your heads at the next thought but I also wondered what things would be like if Microsoft suddenly tried to do the same thing for the BSD community. I wonder if there's a remote possibility that something like that could happen. I also wonder what the reaction of the BSD community would be like. Would M$ be welcomed or would they get the door slammed in their face. In a way, hasn't Apple done the same thing by integrating the BSD kernel into the new Mac OS X? I guess the main question is, would the BSD community benefit from big corporate backing? If so or not, why? Joe -- FreeBSD = The Power to Serve ..Simply put = FreeBSD Rocks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message