Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:48:26 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org> Cc: Joey Garcia <bear@pacificnet.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple End-User FreeBSD Message-ID: <199804230548.WAA18267@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:07:55 PDT." <3.0.3.32.19980422210755.00b25140@hyperreal.org>
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>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. For those that have been in this for awhile like me, the battle is Windows vs. Unix. Which variants of Unix aren't important; what's at stack is the very philosophy of free and creative thinking. You say: Whoa! What has he been smoking! Actually Van Jacobson (father of TCP/IP) put it best (paraphrased) 'With Windows, all you can do is what they let you do. If there isn't a button for it, then you can't do it. That's the fundamental difference between Windows and Unix - With Unix you can string arbitrary commands together (using pipes) and do something much grander then the individual components would seemingly allow.' -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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