Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 18:15:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Manes <anarchy@crl.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fanatical Software Devotion [Slightly off topic ] Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980409175650.117C-100000@crl.crl.com> In-Reply-To: <352CCF3C.D175458C@indigo.ie>
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> > Well, look what I found (about Linux) in my mailbox this morning..... > :)http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C20863%2C00.html?dd.ne.tx.fs > > Anyone have any comments on this???? heh, yeah..great eh? In an wearlier news.com report, they were saying that netscape's new support in linux would only hurt the company, cuz linux isn't the main stream, and all this other bs. This one hits the mark, navigator has joined an eleet crowed. Two senarios, this either sends netscape deeper into hell, or really gives NT some compitition. Unix-flavors are getting more support as many users finally have enough hard drive space/hate Win95-NT control/and remember the large user control dos had (which of course unix multiplies hundredfold) to start going towards adding unix to their system (along with BeOS [sub-unix-flavor] and others). If I'm wrong bout this, well then its only me, but I don't care. Netscape's move will urge corperations to keep unix, and the crap that IE forces on NT (along with the fact that the same number of bugs found in Windows as in unix are only threatening to windows because windows has a larger user group, and is therefor exploited far more). The government labs (ie. LLNL) are getting bombarded with win-nukes/sspings/etc that kill NT, while unix hardly gets hit. Netscapes move was smart, otherwise they would slowly die as IE took more ground and the government stayed as out of it entirely. Think about it, if the justice department makes any sweeping moves on MS, it will only hurt the industry, and only a long term plan will do any good. Otherwise, all they'll do is charge MS millions (like the cigerete companies) and let them get away screwing everyone, legally. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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