From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 15 5:12:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from angel.double-barrel.be (mail.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A37514CF9 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 05:12:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mvergall@double-barrel.be) Received: from ws3.double-barrel.be (ws3.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.30]) by angel.double-barrel.be (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA26957; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:11:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (mvergall@localhost) by ws3.double-barrel.be (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id OAA00481; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:11:46 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: ws3.double-barrel.be: mvergall owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:11:45 +0200 (MEST) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" To: Greg Quinlan Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux not FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <025d01beb725$37acd860$380051c2@qmpgmc.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Greg Quinlan wrote: > Hi all, > > This might give people a little bit of a laugh (not really for this forum): > > Here is SCO (the Serious Commercial Organisation of the free software > rip-offs merchants) Saying they are adding Linux compatibility.... well, > well... could not be bothered doing their own thing anymore with free > software source and decided to do some alignment with free software > developers, and OS's so it wil make their product more attractive > > But why Linux and not FreeBSD also? Because FreeBSD dous not have the volume of users Linux apparently has. Now to be serious it does not realy matter because Linux Binaries run under FreeBSD so the apps from SCO should run on FreeBSD anyway. Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message