From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 29 13:59:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AF116731 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:58:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12EftK-0000ss-00; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 21:58:50 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA87134; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 21:58:50 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 21:58:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Will Andrews Cc: John Purser , "'freebsd-chat'" Subject: Re: costs for solaris vs windows In-Reply-To: <20000129165422.I45988@shadow.blackdawn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Will Andrews wrote: >I don't care about comparisons between Windows something and some >commercial Unix. I would only care if they were making valid comparisons >between SomeOS and FreeBSD. And if they actually published details. Well, i just think most people won't be that discerning when they read reports that Windows is cheaper to run than Unix. To most people, Unix is Unix. It is tough enough explaining that Linux is not Unix, let alone FreeBSD. Of course, we really *are* unix. ;-) -=> jm <=- "Do not taunt the Happy Fun Ball." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message