From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 27 07:19:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA25276 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 07:19:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from subcellar.mwci.net (subcellar.mwci.net [205.254.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA25270 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 07:19:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbutt@mwci.net) Received: from subcellar.mwci.net (subcellar.mwci.net [205.254.160.2]) by subcellar.mwci.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA03517 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:19:05 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:19:05 -0600 (CST) From: "James D. Butt" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will we make freebsd a popular OS? In-Reply-To: <3456b1a5.2139218@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Just imagine the Microsoft slogans ... "From the developers of the > classic MS-DOS, today Microsoft announces the MS-BSD internet > server... " > > If BSDI becomes enough of a commercial success for Microsoft to > notice, I wouldn't be surprised to see Microsoft buy them, or failing > that, use FreeBSD to package their own MS-BSD and compete. I can just imagine how bad Micro$loth would screw that up. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James D. Butt 'J.D.' Network Engineer Voice 319-557-8463 Network Operations Center Fax 319-557-9771 MidWest Communications, Inc. Pager 319-557-6347 241 Main St. noc@mwci.net Dubuque, IA 52001 jbutt@mwci.net --------------------------------------------------------------------------