Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 17:21:48 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au> To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com Cc: fengyue@bluerose.windmoon.nu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel config script Message-ID: <199905310721.RAA83305@mail.theinternet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905302036400.368-100000@pigstuy.penguinpowered.com> from Spike at "May 30, 1999 9:28:43 pm"
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+----[ Spike ]--------------------------------------------- | | a good enough job. I think this because in the end FreeBSD is going to | lose to Linux if only from the sheer momentum of twenty million rabid | Linux fanatics. And realistically, we aren't doing a damn thing about it. Technical discussions aside, I think that in reality, that it's that fanaticism that will be Linux' undoing. There are already reports of people switching from Linux to something else, because they got flamed/mail bombed/etc for daring to do/try/mention something else. It's not easy for any commercial vendor to work in that type of environment. I think some of FreeBSD's long term strengths are that it is centralised, and a willingness (from the userbase) to work with vendors to get applications ported. The rabid zealots of the church of GNU are not likely to want to *pay* for commercial applications on their free OS. It is not going to take long for vendors to realise this. The FreeBSD community seems (to me) to be more commerically oriented, and friendlier to commercial entities and even to 'competitors'. One success story is all it will take to get other vendors interested -- vendors don't really care about technically superiority, they want 'untapped markets.' -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | Milton ACN: 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 |72 Col .Sig PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au|Specialist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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