From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jun 30 15:37:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81DC737B401 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 15:37:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15GTN1-000GuB-00 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 23:37:43 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5UMbg289821 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 23:37:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 23:37:42 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Windows desktop plus FreeBSD server? Message-ID: <20010630233741.A89741@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Now *this* is interesting... I just read that another reason MS might have an interest in BSD for this reason: BSD is an outstanding server OS. The other side of the coin: Windows is the most popular desktop OS. BSD doesn't threaten the Windows desktop monopoly, and by pretending to be OS friendly, at least to one license, they could advance the .Net effort without detracting from *their* desktop market. Jonathon -- Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message