Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:24:57 -0700 From: Joey Garcia <bear@pacificnet.net> To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple End-User FreeBSD Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980422212457.0069ef00@pacificnet.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980422210755.00b25140@hyperreal.org> References: <3.0.1.32.19980422202643.006aa1b8@pacificnet.net>
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At 09:07 PM 4/22/98 -0700, Brian Behlendorf wrote: >At 08:26 PM 4/22/98 -0700, Joey Garcia wrote: >>Although, some of you may suggest that Linux isn't the enemy...some may >>suggest that Bill Gates and Windows NT is the enemy. I guess that's more >>of a philosophical debate. I don't know. To me, Linux is more of a closer >>enemy. They're the other Free Unix-like OS that hat a much bigger following. > >I am going against my better instincts by posting this, the last thing I >need to do is get into a freebsd/linux/windows debate, but this is how I >see it: > >Competition is necessary for evolution to take place - be it in biology, or >just about any other endeavor, and that includes software development. Computerized Darwinism, eh? Survival of the Fittest? >For a long time, there was no competitor to Sendmail; and in fact there was a >period of time where no major development work took place on Sendmail >because it was the default everyone used; meanwhile the environments got >more complex, the requirements for security got more intense, and >competitors like qmail, smail, and now vmailer started popping up, and now >finally Allman is doing active development again. Heck, progress on SMTP >was even delayed because no one cared to advance the state of the art of >internet messaging software, until Microsoft and Netscape started getting >interested in it. I think I see your point...in order for things to get better, we have to try to out-due the other guys whether it's Microsoft or Linux. Is that what's happening to FreeBSD right now? Or is that the point of freebsd-advocacy? To promote the promotion and advancement of FreeBSD. I feel that in order to promote, you gotta be sure that you are better then the other guys. Know what I mean? We already seem to have a few good things going our way, such as a stable system, easy to port software to, the ports collection, great memory managment, proffessional, and the list goes on. Although, it's been stated that FreeBSD lags in the "cutting-edge" department. Although, I understand the reasons for this. Cutting-Edge sometimes involves more problems in terms of bugs or what not. Things are fully tested before released, which I believe to be a good way of doing things. Anyways, competition never really hurt anyone. Unless, you were trying to compete against MS in the commercial world. I guess. But, let's let the competition just make us work that much harder in order to make this community stronger and make FreeBSD better. :) Joey Bear Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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