Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 10:44:35 -0600 From: Mike Allison <mallison@konnections.com> To: "`~-_-~'" <gandersn@puc.net>, "'felix@royal.net'" <felix@royal.net> Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p Message-ID: <01BCDBB2.D3FCC130@ip185-213.konnections.com>
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Aled is right. Many of us have said from the beginning that most Free Unix are moving toward some natural integration anyway. Each day we become more similar. Partly because as the problems and issues become more detailed and complex, the solution set becomes smaller.
Does anyone use NT besides me? I see it everyday as a personal WS/network OS and I tell you, it's chock full of holes. MS creates a product, runs it through 2 or 3 iterations and then moves on. Look at Win95. It will probably never get any better. It certainly doesn't get the attention that you folks put into BSD or the Linux folks put in.
Every inroad on Linux or *BSD brings us one step closer to fusion. What we need to worry about right now is why ApplixWare isn't as good as Office, or if COREL would do WP Office on Linux/*BSD.
The apps are holding us back now and if this much similar effort was put towards apps there would be no stopping Free Unix.
Although it is recognized as the better OS, it just doesn't have the apps organized in a semi shrink wrapped fashion to push it over the edge.
I challenge those quibbling over which free unix is the best to build some apps to bury MS, and I don't mean by building a better MS Windows than MS, but by building better UNIX apps than MS.
-Mike Allison
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From: Aled Treharne
Sent: Friday, October 17, 1997 4:38 PM
To: `~-_-~'
Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p
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On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, `~-_-~' wrote:
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> but why do people argue about one or the other?
> there not that different!
>
Why are we arguing amongst ourselves when we could be doing so much
damage to Microsoft instead?! Pissing contests between two different
flavours of Unix push people away from Unix - not towards it. I f we
could concentrate our efforts on destroying Microsoft's user base... :)
I dream of a world where people say "Micro-what? who?"
Aled Treharne felix@royal.net
"Big Bird meets Salvador Dali has been brought to you by the numbers L and
), and by the letter 3."
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