From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 2 19:21:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA13384 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:21:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost2.cac.washington.edu (mailhost2.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13379 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:21:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmorrisn@u.washington.edu) Received: from u.washington.edu (cs237-10.student.washington.edu [140.142.173.131]) by mailhost2.cac.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id TAA29918; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:20:30 -0700 Message-ID: <36158AD6.811BD16E@u.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 19:24:22 -0700 From: dmorrisn X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass CC: Wes Peters , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , James Love , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement References: <23307.907176696@time.cdrom.com> <4.1.19981002190913.040f3b60@mail.lariat.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >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. That is a rhetorical fallacy. (Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc -- "After this therefore because of this") The reason OS/2 died was because IBM and Microsoft couldn't get along. That's why Microsoft cut them off. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message