From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Sep 29 06:06:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA17588 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 06:06:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA17571 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 06:06:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA20983; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 06:06:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199809291306.GAA20983@implode.root.com> To: obrien@NUXI.com cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux looms large: Intel, Netscape slap NT, will invest in Red Hat In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 01:17:17 PDT." <19980929011717.A10537@nuxi.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 06:06:50 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >This does not look good.. :( I dunno, it seems to be good news to me. It's not difficult to get Linux people to switch to FreeBSD, it happens frequently and they usually stick with us after switching. It's quite a different thing to get people to switch from NT, however. I see the popularity of Linux as being a stepping stone of sorts for us; it bridges the gap between the Microsoft world and the Unix world, bringing us more converts than we ever could have otherwise acheived. >http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_smgraph_display/0,4436,2142107,00.html > >Linux looms large: Intel, Netscape slap NT, will invest in Red Hat -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message