Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:39:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Bill Gates: "FreeBSD is our competitor" Message-ID: <19990223183910.P93492@lemis.com>
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In an otherwise forgettable interview with Bill Gates published in
issue 4/1999 of the German magazine c't, I note the following question
and answer fragment:
c't: How much competition does Linux really pose to Windows NT?
More and more large companies are using Linux. Could that
become dangerous for NT?
Gates: Windows NT has always had some competition. FreeBSD has been
around for a long time. Apache, free software, has been used
by large companies for a long time. Maybe you have only
noticed it now. We have had competition from free software for
a long time. Our job is to do the things that people expect
from an operating system [excuse me while a laugh myself silly.
Ah, that's better] and to bring it to a completely new level.
That is what we're doing with Windows 2000. That is what we
will do if future versions.
[More stuff omitted. He did *not* mention Linux in his answer.
This is pretty typical of the interview, which I found a bit
disappointing. The interviewers could have really hammered him
in a couple of places, but if they did, they didn't publish
it].
For those of you who read c't, it's in the middle of the right-hand
column on page 20.
Greg
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