From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 2 18:12:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05719 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 18:12:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05684 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 18:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id TAA10317; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:11:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981002190913.040f3b60@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 19:10:48 -0600 To: Wes Peters , "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Cc: James Love , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36127E46.C50BA0DF@softweyr.com> References: <23307.907176696@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:53 PM 9/30/98 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: >Linux compatibility is one of the >most important features of FreeBSD. As the market for commercial Linux >applications grows, so does the market for commercial FreeBSD applications. History has proven exactly the opposite. The introduction of Windows application support in OS/2 actually accelerated its demise. If FreeBSD starts billing itself as "a better Linux than Linux" it will fall into precisely the same trap and will never catch up. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message