From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 3 1: 6: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4363156BD for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 01:05:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990503080731.BYQQ7099562.mta2-rme@wocker> for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 20:07:31 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 20:05:30 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Why is Linux Successful? - An Opinion. Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990503080731.BYQQ7099562.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have received permission from the author of this article to publish it on my website. This article was first published at UniForum NZ 99 held in Rotorua, New Zealand 13-17 April 1999. It makes for interesting reading. Some bits are quite funny. Regardless of what people think, I'm sure it will make for interesting dicussion. I've submitted it to slashdot. Before you consider flaming, read the article. Enjoy. http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/linux.htm -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message