Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 23:05:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net> To: Jason Nordwick <nordwick@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux as a Mozilla total reference platform Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980509223921.22691A-100000@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: <19980510022104.11547.qmail@xcf.berkeley.edu>
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On 10 May 1998, Jason Nordwick wrote:
> Porbably not, I dont get the feeling that Netscape is doing this
> for The Right Reasons, but just more for Market positioning. I
> have given up on them and most of the new Open Source companies.
> They are not supporting Open Source software, but are using the
> "new" idea to get their name out and sell their product.
>
> You'll probably just get the same B.S. that everybody else is
> giving: they don't want to get involve in any BSD vs. BSD or
> Linux vs. BSD things, which is just blatanly wrong, we are all
> grownup here.
I have posted this same belief myself twice now, and have been told twice
1) we have friends at netscape. 2) Jamie says they want a "UNIX" version
NOT a linux version or FreeBSD version. So each time i'm told this not a
few days later another PRO-Linux article comes out from mozilla's website
or andreesen himself is quoted publicly stating netscapes main
goal is linux. No one has a straight story, it keeps changing,
they say one thing and then a few weeks later say the opposite. Ill just
run the mozilla we have, and if that dies a horrid death ill just run the
linux binary. It isn't a huge deal to me anymore, you have to learn to
pick your fights, and this isn't mine. I would much rather work on
increasing our server share. And thats what im doing. I have found
something here in the pit of hell[1] that actually sells. Little 486's
configured for dial-on-demand, with a 500MB-1GB Squid cache for small
offices. I include a small el cheapo hub and a pack of NE2000 nic cards,
and people are ditching their cable modems at their office :) Another 40K
of these and I can retire!
[1] If you have ever wondered where sinners go after death, they dont go
to hell they go to kansas.
Chris
--
"I don't do favors, I accumulate debts"
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