Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 00:53:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brett@peloton.runet.edu (Brett Taylor) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jcwells@u.washington.edu, brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Targeting the server: Not such a good idea? Message-ID: <199910090053.RAA01748@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910081655380.15548-100000@peloton.runet.edu> from "Brett Taylor" at Oct 8, 99 05:00:09 pm
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> There's an interesting article at XML.com. It's a talk that Tim O'Reilly > gave in Tokyo at a Linux convention. In the article he points out that he > believes there's a new revolution in computing going on - not software, > not hardware, but a shift to web sites as the "killer app" and that all of > the focus of the Linux users on "beating MS at the desktop" is totally > misplaced when they should be focusing on what is to come. > > http://xml.com/pub/1999/10/tokyo.html > > Anyway, I think this is a nice contrast to what Brett normally talks about > (not focusing solely on the server and taking on the desktop) - whether it > has any merits I'll leave to you the reader. :-) Which is really belied by Tim's company's own actions, with regard to publication of Linux vs. BSD materials, IMO. This is a situation where he publically holds one opinion, but acts in contravention of that opinion. Linus has consistently, in recent times, played a political role as an anti-Microsoft crusader, using it as a rallying point to attract ever more support for Linux. Tim's organization, through their publications, has demonstrably demonstrated, through a preferential support of Linux, support by proxy for this position, while claiming at the same time that BSD represents a superior server OS. One could argue either that one of these contradictory views must be falsely held, or that he's torn between philosophy (BSD) and following the money (Linux). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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