From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed May 26 2:19:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A678E14CAB for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 02:19:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id LAA02309; Wed, 26 May 1999 11:19:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local-smtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 10mZr3-0007rQ-00; Wed, 26 May 1999 11:20:05 +0200 Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:20:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Adam Szilveszter To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Bill Gates mentions FreeBSD in interview In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! I have just come across an article in issue 4/1999 of the German IT magazine "c't - Magazin fuer computer-technik" which might be of interest. Sadly enough, the article is not available online but it is an exclusive interview made in Bonn, Germany after the "The road Ahead" awards. Mostly it deals with software bugs and Windows2000 but there is a section on Free Software and Linux as well. It reads in relevant part: (translation by me) Q: How big is the pressure from Linux on NT in reality? Linux has been increasingly moving in even in big corporate environments. Could this be a danger to NT? Gates: Windows NT has always had some competitors. FreeBSD has existed a for a long time. Apache, which is free software, has been used by big firms for quite some time as well. It is possible that you have not noticed it yet until now. We have had to compete with FreeSoftware for a longer period of time. [...snip] The rest is the ususal blah-blah and therefore of no interest:-) Maybe we should make some more marketing, after all, Gates is considering us to be serious competition:-) Cheers: Szilveszter Szeged University Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message