From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 23 0:20:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2EA11F8C; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:16:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id BAA02823; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 01:16:18 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990223011331.0097bb80@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 01:16:15 -0700 To: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD advocacy list , FreeBSD Chat From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Bill Gates: "FreeBSD is our competitor" In-Reply-To: <19990223183910.P93492@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Microsoft execs have a practice of decreeing that employees must NOT mention a major competitor's name, especially in the presence of reporters. They would, for instance, pay a fine if they mentioned the "N-word" (that is, "Netscape") instead of saying, "that browser company." I suspect that the same sort of edict has been issued with regard to Linux. --Brett At 06:39 PM 2/23/99 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >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 >-- >See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers >finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message