Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 00:15:12 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Alan Weber <aaweber@austin.rr.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in the press Message-ID: <3709A66F.C97F91D3@softweyr.com> References: <19990405212726.A17937@quark.feynman.com> <19990405221535.A1142@austin.rr.com>
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Alan Weber wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:27:26PM -0500, Frank Pawlak wrote:
> --> There is a good article in the currents Data communications
> --> magazine. www.data.com It concerns Open Source as a network operating
> --> system. Interesting stats. So, have a look.
> --> Frank
>
> It is nice to see equal billing given to *BSD with Linux. Unfortunately, there
> seems to be some factual errors regarding licensing and file system sizes that
> come from assuming that *BSD is the same as Linux. I am not technically versed
> enough to be able to cite the correct statistics and elicidate the license
> differences clearly.
There were several other factual errors also, including support contracts.
I'll try to make a detailed rebuttal tomorrow, and forward it to the
author and the editors. Still, the tone was quite good; it's nice to
see the "real" press coming around to my viewpoint.
BTW, does anyone have a link to that FreeBSD cluster that was bantered
about sometime last year? I'd like to refute their claim of no clustering
in the BSD world as well.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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