From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 23:36:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07354 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA07334 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 06:36:12 GMT (envelope-from mark@vnode.vmunix.com) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA10022; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:41:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mark) Message-ID: <19980414024100.13293@vmunix.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 02:41:00 -0400 From: Mark Mayo To: dg@root.com, esr@thyrsus.com Cc: Anatoly Vorobey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products References: <19980414015920.30944@snark.thyrsus.com> <199804140618.XAA15623@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199804140618.XAA15623@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 11:18:55PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 11:18:55PM -0700, David Greenman wrote: [SNIP] > not true. I for one believe that the war is with Windows/*, and not > between the Unix-like systems. Given a choice between Linux and Windows, > the choice is a simple one. There are plenty of reasons why I don't like > Linux myself, but I certainly have no desire for it to fail; the more > people it can keep from the clutches of Microsoft, the better. I whole heartedly agree. The real war is with Windows, and it appears certain now that free Unix is indeed making some serious progress. The fact that we actually have several *superb* choices on the free unix front is nothing less than miraculous. In retrospect, it's pure luxury, and while I'd be sad to see the BSD community not make it up there with Linux in the mainstream, I'd sure as hell be happy as heck to be able to run and develop under Linux as opposed to a M$ "OS". :-) -Mark > > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The problem is how do you build tools that understand your programs at a deeper semantic level." - James Gosling To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message