From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 22 22:50:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA09206 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:50:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA09144 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:50:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA18267; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:48:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804230548.WAA18267@implode.root.com> To: Brian Behlendorf cc: Joey Garcia , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple End-User FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:07:55 PDT." <3.0.3.32.19980422210755.00b25140@hyperreal.org> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:48:26 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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