From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 27 12:49:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2596114EE4 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:49:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12Dvqw-000CXH-00; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:49:18 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA53864; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:49:17 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:49:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: John Cc: Alfred Perlstein , "Morten A. Middelthon" , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cnn.com - "King of the network operating systems" In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000127145334.00a3df00@mail.udel.edu> 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 I just read the review.... i missed the beginning of this thread, but i am appalled that FreeBSd is not even referred to anywhere. Maybe that is because it is free. I find it amusing that win 2000 is already being heralded as a great network OS, when many in the corporate world won't touch it with a 3-meter pole until they see what happens after release and trail-by-fire. Sometimes i wonder if all this advocacy is just a waste of time. FreeBSD may never die, but it will never be taken seriously in a world where a product is judged by slick look-and-feel, accessibility by non-experts, and financial success. Maybe that statement is a bit rash, but i can't see the situation changing anytime soon. Hey, even Linux may be eclipsed by win 2000, who knows? If Solaris 8 is a failure, that will only bolster M$ market position. We may have to settle for a small slice of the pie, and learn to be happy being the radical outsiders, which we already are anyway. ;-) -=> jm <=- If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around, does anybody care? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message