From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 3 10:13:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cheddar.netmonger.net (cheddar.netmonger.net [209.54.21.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD8214F53 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:12:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@cheddar.netmonger.net) Received: (from chris@localhost) by cheddar.netmonger.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA05107; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:12:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19990303131235.A1022@netmonger.net> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:12:35 -0500 From: Christopher Masto To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guess we've lost the server market too...? Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <39909.920444937@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990303013618.E25217@futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19990303013618.E25217@futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 01:36:18AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 01:36:18AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > Intel's chipped in a bit to Linux. Now here's IBM (pretty darn big, in > Jordan's words) doing it too. Dell (I think?) has said they'll begin > shipping systems with Linux. They've pretty well hit critical mass, and > it's just going to snowball. The mainstream market has found it's > blue-eyed baby boy. > > Bad? Good? I'm not going to pass judgement on this. Have we 'lost' the Good is that there is a choice. Microsoft's stranglehold is being broken. We will be able to buy computers that don't come with software we don't want preinstalled on them. Yesterday it was Windows only. Today it's Windows or Linux. "One, Two, Many". -- Christopher Masto Director of Operations NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message