From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jun 28 10:38:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3891037B409 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:38:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=659cf1e3ad4fcb6cec96423fe4c5301a) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15Ffoq-0000CU-00; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:43:08 -0600 Message-ID: <3B3B6CAC.48C6B819@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:43:08 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: David Johnson , Bruce Meier , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Microsoft References: <000001c0ff9d$6d03fc60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Johnson > >Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:44 PM > >To: Bruce Meier > >Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Microsoft > > > > > >Bruce Meier wrote: > >> > >> Sounds like divide and conquer to me. > > > >The vast majority of responses at Linux Today to this and a related > >article see this as what it is, a transparent tactic to get us fighting > >each other. > > > > What rot. They are just pissed off because now they are going to have > to put a FreeBSD emulator in Linux if they want the stuff. Where were these > hoseheads when we had to put a Linuxulator in FreeBSD, Huh? No they won't. Linux users don't seem to have any problems at all compiling and running BSD-licensed code on their systems: BIND, Sendmail, DHCP, etc. If Microsoft releases under anything remotely like an open license, it'll be ported to Linux in a matter of days. Just because they can, if for no other reason. Then some group of Linux hackers will pick it up, move chunks of it into a Linux kernel module, and prove that Linux can run the C# equivalent of "while (1) gethostname();" faster than FreeBSD or Win2K/XP. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message