From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 22 17:39:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.interlog.com (smtp.interlog.com [207.34.202.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC07110EE6 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:39:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulg@interlog.com) Received: from shell1.interlog.com (paulg@shell1.interlog.com [207.34.202.8]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id UAA13754; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:39:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:41:39 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Griffith To: Christopher Masto Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: San Jose Mercury News In-Reply-To: <19990222181303.A758@netmonger.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Christopher Masto wrote: > Linux came along at a time and in such a way that large numbers of > people were motivated to work on it and spread it to their friends. > This was well before it became "Linux vs. NT", but by the time that > issue arrived, Linux had accumulated a huge base of followers and was > able to gain the perception of a support mechanism. Even then, in my > experience, Microsoft's products are tried first, and Linux (or > FreeBSD) is only an option when NT has caused colossal amounts of > loss. I second this, Microsoft has done such a good marketing job, I have seen people take down a working Novell Server to install Win NT 4.0. Everyone seems to take the sh*t from Microsoft. It's really to bad. I would like to able to have a choice on the desktop, and the server. Paul Griffith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message