From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 11 17:17:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05578 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 17:17:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05488 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 17:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id CAA00228 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 02:16:29 +0200 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA05990; 12 Apr 98 02:15:35 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 11 Apr 98 10:09:52 +0100 Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: References: <199804092124.OAA00915@dingo.cdrom.com> <025301bd63fb$0b94bc80$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com> <199804092124.OAA00915@dingo.cdrom.com> <19980410113536.65458@freebie.lemis.com> <199804100428.WAA09649@lariat.lariat.org> <19980410143743.25913@freebie.lemis.com> <19980410121551.JK28648@mars.hsc.fr> Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari. Go for it. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10 Apr 98 12:15:51 Pierre Beyssac wrote regarding Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" PB> The sad thing is that a fair part of the NT growth is based on a PB> self-fulfilling prophecy. NT is supposed to be the future of PB> computing, so everyone jumps on it and gives it more PB> credibility... That's the same as how the PC became the main PB> platform. PB> PB> This is kinda ironic if you remember that a little more than ten PB> years ago, the future was supposed to be OS/2 :-)) The sad thing is that the battle between NT and OS/2 is looking like the battle between Linux and FreeBSD. In the NT vs OS/2 battle marketing won over quality. It looks like the same thing happening here. Leif Neland leifn@internet.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message