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Date:      Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:10:22 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
To:        "Jason S. Anderson" <jason.anderson@windriver.com>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, crap@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Microsoft giving back to FreeBSD !!
Message-ID:  <p0510034fb760ce81f756@[194.78.241.123]>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010627194638.01ad1970@mail.wrs.com>
References:  <XFMail.010627143038.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <5.0.2.1.2.20010627194638.01ad1970@mail.wrs.com>

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At 8:00 PM -0700 6/27/01, Jason S. Anderson wrote:

>  The question is what does it mean to FreeBSD? Like Microsoft, there
>  is a need to establish an identity that will survive through the
>  next decade. If anything, .NET could turn out to be a great
>  opportunity to position BSD as a better .NET server than Windows.

	Problem is, FreeBSD (and Unix in general) is already a better 
Windows Services server than Microsoft -- just look at Tom 
Limoncelli's paper "Providing Reliable NT Desktop Services by 
Avoiding NT Server" at 
<http://www.bell-labs.com/user/tal/papers/ntdesktop/ntdesktop/ntdesktop.html>.

	However, this fact doesn't seem to be helping many people, and 
indeed, it seems that most of the Universe is completely and 
blissfully ignorant of this fact.  I don't think that the situation 
could possibly improve with .NET.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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