From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 8 3:24:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4884F15296 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 03:24:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@shell6.ba.best.com) Received: (from jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.sh) id DAA16108; Sat, 8 May 1999 03:23:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990508032355.F13770@best.com> Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 03:23:55 -0700 From: "Jan B. Koum " To: Rahul Siddharthan , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ken Thompson clarifies to ESR References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Rahul Siddharthan on Sat, May 08, 1999 at 02:20:19PM +0530 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 02:20:19PM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > http://linuxtoday.com/stories/5722.html > > "i think the open software movement (and linux in particular) > is laudable." > > "... it is naive to think that linux has a hope of making a dent > against microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the > resources and amateur labor. (i feel the same about unix.)" > > "...the linux community is a lot nicer than the unix community. > a negative comment on unix would warrant death threats. with > linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies." > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message Ken Thompson is awesome -- he is now in my .sig also ;) The coolest part: linux folks can't really argue with Thompson since he is _THE UNIX_ himself ;) -- Yan "My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse. In a non-PC environment, it just won't hold up. If you're using it on a single box, that's one thing. But if you want to use Linux in firewalls, gateways, embedded systems, and so on, it has a long way to go." - Ken Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message