From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 15 09:08:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA18105 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:08:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.ge.com (ns.ge.com [192.35.39.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA18098; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thomas.ge.com (thomas.ge.com [3.47.28.21]) by ns.ge.com (8.8.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA28721; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:06:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from crissy.gemis.ge.com (crissy-ether.gemis.ge.com [3.29.7.204]) by thomas.ge.com (8.8.4/8.7.5) with SMTP id MAA23441; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:09:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from carsdb.salem.ge.com (carsdb.salem.ge.com [3.29.7.15]) by crissy.gemis.ge.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id MAA07488; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:00:53 -0400 Received: from combs.salem.ge.com (combs.salem.ge.com [3.29.5.200]) by carsdb.salem.ge.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA01254; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:58:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (steve@localhost) by combs.salem.ge.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA25957; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:58:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:58:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stephen F. Combs" To: dyson@freebsd.org cc: Darren Reed , davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu, fullermd@narcissus.ml.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another Linux Religious war (was Re: Commercial vendors registry) In-Reply-To: <199704151443.JAA00188@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yes it IS changing! I work for GE Motors & Industrial Systems and we use FreeBSD for mission-critical stuff ALL the time (IBM M/F Print Spoolers, Remote DNS servers, SMTP E-Mail masters, etc......). ---- Stephen F. Combs Internet: CombsSF@Salem.GE.COM GE Industrial Systems Voice: 540.387.8828 Network Services Home: CombsSF-Home@Salem.GE.COM 1501 Roanoke Blvd FAX: 540.387.7106 Salem, VA 24153 LapTop: CombsSF-Mobile@Salem.GE.COM On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, John S. Dyson wrote: > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:43:14 -0500 (EST) > From: "John S. Dyson" > Reply-To: dyson@freebsd.org > To: Darren Reed > Cc: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu, fullermd@narcissus.ml.org, > jkh@time.cdrom.com, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Another Linux Religious war (was Re: Commercial vendors registry) > > > In some mail from David S. Miller, sie said: > > > > > > Thats funny, we don't have any "Linux vs. FreeBSD" web pages in the > > > Linux world, there are a few "Linux vs. NT" ones which are, from a > > > free software perspective, much more relevant if you are truly > > > interesting in seeing free software and Unix succeed. I guess it is > > > just akin to a food chain in the free Unix world. > > > > I can't see any upper management person ever taking a liking to anything > > that is available "freely" on the 'net for mission critical stuff. And > > I don't mean your < 100 people small companies, but big organisations > > with real budgets. > > > That is changing. > > John >