Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 22:12:04 -0500 From: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Message-ID: <19981002221204.C11661@execpc.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981002202119.040f7c30@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 08:29:21PM -0600 References: <23307.907176696@time.cdrom.com> <4.1.19981002190913.040f3b60@mail.lariat.org> <36158AD6.811BD16E@u.washington.edu> <4.1.19981002202119.040f7c30@mail.lariat.org>
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On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 08:29:21PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 07:24 PM 10/2/98 -0700, dmorrisn wrote:
> >> 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")
>
> 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.
>
> Look at it from the developer's point of view. Why EVER develop a native
> FreeBSD version of any product if one can just do a Linux version?
>
> So, FreeBSD's name never appears on the box. Tech support for commercial
> products is unavailable when they run under FreeBSD, while they're well
> supported under Linux. Linux gets the mindshare and FreeBSD becomes known
> as an unsupported also-ran.
>
> I watched this happen with OS/2. I couldn't even get support for WINDOWS
> apps running under OS/2, much less get native versions that were any
> good.
>
> >The reason OS/2 died was because IBM and Microsoft couldn't get along.
> >That's why Microsoft cut them off.
>
> The Linux camp doesn't exactly get along with FreeBSD either. They trash
> it constantly.
>
> --Brett
Brett, you are exactly on target. But I am afraid that you are just
pissing against the wind.
I like you, am convinced that there is an economic issue that is holding
FreeBSD back in the market place.
--
--Frank
"At no time is the freedom of speech more precious then when a man hits
his thumb with a hammer."
--Marshall Lumsden
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