Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 00:35:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: ragnar@sysabend.org (Jamie Bowden) Cc: Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS & Linux duopoly Message-ID: <199909090035.RAA07108@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990908082545.780A-100000@beelzebubba.sysabend.org> from "Jamie Bowden" at Sep 8, 99 08:30:18 am
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> :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 > > I didn't bother to hit the URL, but this isn't news. Things like X11amp > and Cthugha are prime examples. Those are fluff. The non-fluff stuff > that's becoming linux specific is pissing me off. It reminds me alot of > when I had to take lots of freeware code written on SunOS and port it to > Irix. What a nightmare. > > Jamie Bowden > > -- > > If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. > -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) How apropos, given your signature. 8-) 8-). Perhaps we can replace "boggle" with "WordPerfect", and tie it to Linux a little more, and see what we get? "If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But commercial software can all go to Linux." -"Anonymous" (on advocacy in support of native commercial products) ...just to stir the pot, a bit... 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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