Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 04:25:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Jason Nordwick <nordwick@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>, The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux as a Mozilla total reference platform Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980510041824.12972B-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <199805101104.EAA01553@rah.star-gate.com>
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You have a point. Hence we now have two views to take.
1. Linux people are our friend. We are both here for the same reason. We
both love free software and we are both against MS.
2. Linux peple are not our friend. While they also hate MS, the want to
replace shitty MS products with only their shitty OS. They fear
competition for their weak, hacked up together OS and would like to see
*BSD go away.
What should we do now? We can assume #2 and take attack. We can
assume number one, but if #2 is true, we WILL lose. I am paranoid. I'll
go with #2... well, I have been for some time. But let us not forget that
as Linux pushing into corporate markets and people get used to "free
software" concept, it will also make it easy for FreeBSD to get into the
corporate market.
-- Yan
Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want
www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark."
Linux == DOS of the Unix world.
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote:
>Technological leads are temporary . Perhaps in a year from now linux
>will be sufficiently strong in the server market and even if it is
>not so the plague of insect like fanatics will probably convince even
>Bill Gates to use linux. They do behave like insects or a weird virus.
>
>
> Amancio
>
>> On Sun, 10 May 1998, Brett Glass wrote:
>>
>> >At 02:21 AM 5/10/98 +0000, Jason Nordwick wrote:
>> >
>> >>You'll probably just get the same B.S. that everybody else is
>> >>giving: they don't want to get involve in any BSD vs. BSD or
>> >>Linux vs. BSD things, which is just blatanly wrong, we are all
>> >>grownup here.
>> >
>> >Well, in a sense, it's true. They DON'T want to get involved in any
>> >"Linux vs. BSD things." They want to pick the best seller, just as
>> >they did with Windows, and support it -- whether or not it is the best
>> >choice.
>> >
>> >FreeBSD has about a year to achieve near-parity with Linux or it may
>> >be in trouble because of this pattern of behavior. Think it can be done?
>> >
>> >--Brett
>> >
>> No, we will not be in trouble. We are very strong in the
>> server/high load computing to be in trouble. Then again, I am biased. :)
>>
>> -- Yan
>>
>> P.S. I took -advacacy off now.
>>
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