From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 14 15:04:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA17820 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 15:04:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA17810 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 15:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id PAA01087 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 15:04:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA19460; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:42:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704142142.OAA19460@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry To: abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:42:00 -0700 (MST) Cc: jbryant@tfs.net, dennis@etinc.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Alex Belits" at Apr 13, 97 10:03:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Linux is more available for users, and a lot of its users have no > clue, how to use it. Ugh. I take exception here. It sounds like you are claiming Linux users mostly come from installations of CDROM's from bookstores, instead of from the net. Net availability is equal, if different. > Linux developers (and developers that just supported Linux well) didn't > do anything at the "big corporations" scale. They just didn't use the > approach "we will make The Distribution, we will port everything around > to make sure, it will fit The Distribution, and if we change something, > you should take new Distribution and our port, or it will break". Heh. "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.