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From: Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux not FreeBSD?
To: steve@cioe.com (Steve Ames)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:29:17 +0100 (BST)
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In-Reply-To: <199906151614.LAA53574@ns1.cioe.com> from "Steve Ames" at Jun 15, 99 11:14:01 am
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> 
> > > > Yes but unfortunatly this could happen because the FreeBSD community does
> > > > not have "Big commercial names" behind them and no commercial entity
> > > > behind them to promote it as a viable alternative...I personally find this
> > > > to be rediculous but...
> > > 
> > > Does the FreeBSD community want this?
> >
> > Personally I would say that the FreeBSD community does not need it.
> 
> Hrm... I would say the FreeBSD community _DOES NEED_ high-end, commercial
> application support. What's the use of having the best OS if you can't
> run the best applications on it? How many of us have an NT and/or Linux
> box on hand just to run apps that won't run on FreeBSD. Or if they do
> run, they don't run well?
> 
> > > Such a user hype as there is on linux brings much people who never
> > > think of reading a handbook etc.
> >
> > This is only one of the reasons why I don't like to see this happen the
> > other is all the commercial interests will eventually be detremental to
> > Linux as a OS.
> 
> Perhaps. I'd like to think that Linus won't allow this to happen. While
> we're waiting to see if this interest is detremental to the OS we can
> also watch as major sofware vendors start viewing unix (yeah, yeah) as
> a viable market again.

OTOH, how much good will it do have umpteen distributions of FreeBSD ?
That will be unavoidable, i would think....Although I DO think
that a bit more "marketing" won't do much harm.

> 						-Steve
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can we please move this thread to -chat ?

Kiril


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