From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 30 5:47: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4258514ECE for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 05:47:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by iaces.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA24021; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 07:45:26 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199908301245.HAA24021@iaces.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on slashdot. In-Reply-To: from Sebestyen Zoltan at "Aug 30, 99 10:01:24 am" To: szoli@netvisor.hu (Sebestyen Zoltan) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 07:45:26 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Sebestyen Zoltan said: [Charset iso-8859-2 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Here's an interesting article on my favourite OS: > > http://www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=TECB29 You cut off the end of that URL: http://www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=TECB29&date=29-Aug-1999&word=freebsd > Here's an interesting line from the article: > > Without bitterness, Hubbard concedes the obvious. "We lost the PR war." > > Jordan, what did you mean by that? I think it's pretty obvious from the article, and from what's happening in the exploding Linux market. Look in a book store, there are 1000's of books on Linux, and if your lucking, Greg's book on FreeBSD might be there. Everywhere you turn people are falling over themselves to run Linux. Is Linux better than FreeBSD, well no. Is it worse, probably not. But it's different. What's the difference? The Linux community didn't have the stigma of the law suit back in '93. It also took the Microsoft programming model as part of it's strategy, and that is Marketing. Obnoxious and in your face, bullying companies to port software to Linux. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message