From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 8 5:31:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from beelzebubba.sysabend.org (beelzebubba.sysabend.org [209.201.74.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84D014E5E for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 05:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 58F4F4264; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 08:30:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 352699C3A; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 08:30:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 08:30:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS & Linux duopoly In-Reply-To: <19990908102618.A68257@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote: :I know Theo isn't everyone's cup of tea, but he does have a point here. :There's too much linux specific code out there. : :http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.idg.com.au%2FCWT1997.nsf%2FHome%2Bpage%2F83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41%3FOpenDocument&return=%2fidg_frames%2fenglish%2ffeatures%2ehtml I didn't bother to hit the URL, but this isn't news. Things like X11amp and Cthugha are prime examples. Those are fluff. The non-fluff stuff that's becoming linux specific is pissing me off. It reminds me alot of when I had to take lots of freeware code written on SunOS and port it to Irix. What a nightmare. Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message