Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:56:47 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> To: Wes Peters <wpeters@xylan.com> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products Message-ID: <19980413215647.37918@snark.thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: <3532AD36.2968F8B6@xylan.com>; from Wes Peters on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 06:26:31PM -0600 References: <199804131719.LAA21122@narnia.plutotech.com> <35326353.4E30451B@xylan.com> <19980413201541.65522@snark.thyrsus.com> <3532AD36.2968F8B6@xylan.com>
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Wes Peters <wpeters@xylan.com>: > A third scenario that is less likely but would still help would be > convergence of the disparate groups back into one organization. It's > really too bad we have to have three web sites, three ftp server > organizations, three differing (and more or less successful) CD-ROM > programs, etc., for what are very similar products. That's the key thing, IMO. The fact that the BSD crowd is split into squabbling spinoff-group-of-the-week factions, while Linux looks pretty much like one big happy family united under benign Daddy Torvalds, negates every single technical advantage you guys have. > At some time, once Linux starts getting really entrenched in a couple > of highly visible businesses, somebody's going to hit a snag running > a TurboLinux application on a RedHat server or some such silly bunch > of rot, and they're going to tell some hare-brained "journalist" > about it, and the PC rags are going to have a heyday. "See, we told > you this Linux stuff was for the birds, trust Microsoft. Their > products are perfect, and their dedicated support staff will take care > of you." It would be *very* unwise to hope for this. For one thing, if your story about BSD being preferable for highly-stressed, high-throughput network servers is true, it's about as likely you'll get bit as a Linux box will. And, in any case, if you think the pinheads who inhabit the trade press wouldn't rush to interpret a conspicuous Linux failure as a slam on *all* open-source/Unix OSs, you're dreaming. -- <a href="http://sagan.earthspace.net/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> "Taking my gun away because I might shoot someone is like cutting my tongue out because I might yell `Fire!' in a crowded theater." -- Peter Venetoklis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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