From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 2 19:42:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14921 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost1.u.washington.edu (mailhost1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14913 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:42:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmorrisn@u.washington.edu) Received: from u.washington.edu (cs237-10.student.washington.edu [140.142.173.131]) by mailhost1.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id TAA26567; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:40:58 -0700 Message-ID: <36158FA2.FB67AC24@u.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 19:44:50 -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> <4.1.19981002202119.040f7c30@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 > >That is a rhetorical fallacy. (Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc -- "After > >this therefore because of this") > > No fallacy at all. It's been proven again and again that emulating another > OS that's more popular provides the ultimate disincentive to developers. > OS/2 is only one recent case in point. I don't see any proof that it's the "ultimate disincentive", nor have you given any. You continue to substitute opinion as fact, which I won't bother quoting below. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message