Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:05:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980410210407.29953B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <352D9376.79BA2FB7@3skel.com>
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On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Dan Janowski wrote: > Just for the record, for a long time this whole 'debate' has made me sick. > > The two main issues here are market presence and maturity. Linux has > an edge in market presence because it is 'this cool thing grown from the > muck of the Internet'. Many people, myself included, started with Linux not > because it was better but because it seemed like a cool new thing, and it > has > a public presence because of its lineage (however short it may be). Actually, what continues to surprise me is the better coverage in the Walnut Creek catalog. At least the past few I've seen, Linux has had several pages of CDs, front page coverage, better quotes from users, etc. I would have expected, if I saw an OS on the front of the Walnut Creek catalog, that it be FreeBSD. Often as not, it is Linux. I haven't received my latest catalog yet, I would be willing to bet that it is the same :). Robert N Watson ---- Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ Trusted Information Systems http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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