Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:05:50 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com>, kris@airnet.net, David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.980412150403.3534A-100000@csd> In-Reply-To: <199804121148.FAA27199@lariat.lariat.org>
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On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > 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 > >willget from other students that already know Linux. > > In that case, why didn't they use Microsoft Windows? ;-( To be honest, that was what they intended to do before I talked to them, and before Micro$oft told them that to give away NT, Office, Visual C++ and Visual J++ to students will cost them a few hundred $$$s in educational licenses (per copy) and will take some 16 CDs... > > 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 > > Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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