From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 8 14:28:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5AB3150E8 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 14:28:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.198.213]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA2CB3; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:27:53 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA65024; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:18:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:18:46 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS & Linux duopoly Message-ID: <19990908231846.H64229@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <19990908102618.A68257@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <19990908102618.A68257@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Dominic Mitchell (Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) [990908 13:14]: >I know Theo isn't everyone's cup of tea, but he does have a point here. >There's too much linux specific code out there. > >http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.idg.com.au%2FCWT1997.nsf%2FHome%2Bpage%2F83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41%3FOpenDocument&return=%2fidg_frames%2fenglish%2ffeatures%2ehtml This is known for a while now. Miguel de Icaza (the gnome lamer^H^H^H^H^H guy) even admitted to write non-portable code just to favour and push Linux. This is EXACTLY NOT the mentatilty the coders on BSD have. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message