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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Min Huang (tunny)" <hmin@public.cq.sc.cn>
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Subject: Re: Will we make freebsd a popular OS?
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On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Min Huang (tunny) wrote:

> What's the team's purpose, Will we make freebsd a popular OS? Or, dose
> any one even think of this? I mean like Windows system.

I suppose.  Many work on the system for the gratification of working on a
free operating system, apart from the world of Micro$loth.  Others for the
good of the group.  

If FreeBSD became as popular as Windows, it would be a gigantic moral
victory.  It'd take a _lot_ of work -- think of how many people you have
to each XWindows to. :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major