From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 12 04:49:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA27196 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 04:49:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [129.72.251.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA27191 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 04:49:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27199; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 05:48:56 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199804121148.FAA27199@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 05:48:52 -0600 To: Nadav Eiron , "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Cc: Mark Mayo , kris@airnet.net, David Shanes , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <12130.892266950@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:41 AM 4/12/98 +0300, Nadav Eiron wrote: >Linux is very strong here, and I could not persuade >the faculty to use FreeBSD for the purpose. Their main points were the >better availability of user-level docs, and the better support students >will get from other students that already know Linux. In that case, why didn't they use Microsoft Windows? ;-( This is the sort of attitude I fear if FreeBSD isn't seen as SUPERIOR to, not just the equal of, Linux. Among the lemming-like masses, no one goes with an also-ran. It's time to hustle. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message