Date: 14 Nov 1999 20:09:15 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <rd63du8o91g.fsf@world.std.com> In-Reply-To: "David Schwartz"'s message of Sun, 14 Nov 1999 16:03:04 -0800 References: <000a01bf2efc$ca2434f0$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> writes: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > However, one something is in the application level, i.e. programs like > > the browser, the word processor, the mail reader, hell even the mail > > transfer agent, it is no longer part of the OS. > > The line is very blurry. Where is command.com on MSDOS? Where is the > defragmenter in Windows 98? Where is FreeBSD's 'sysctl'? Do you really want > the government making the decision about what's part of an operating system > and what isn't? I don't even think real technical experts can do it. Before the fuss over Microsoft's bundling IE with Windows, I always considered ftp to be part of the operating system. On Windows *and* Unix. And try as I might, I can't see a difference between that and a browser, other than historical accident. Admittedly, you can have a usable system without either one, but that's true of *most* of what ships with FreeBSD, and I always thought a big advantage of FreeBSD was that it came as a "complete" system... Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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