From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 15 10:33:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA23710 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA23678 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:33:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA22578; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:11:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704151711.KAA22578@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Another Linux Religious war (was Re: Commercial vendors registry) To: fullermd@narcissus.ml.org (The Devil Himself) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:11:07 -0700 (MST) Cc: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "The Devil Himself" at Apr 14, 97 09:22:05 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 > Yeah, but I haven't seen very many FreeBSD vs. MicroMonopoly anything come > across the lists; prob because the people sending the messages to these > lists have already decided to go for free UNIX, and want to know which > they should go for. Actually, it's more like they've already decided that Microsoft is going to win, so they are in it for the pyrric moral victory. If you watch the threads in which I've been shouted down for any length of time, you'll recognize the common thread of "Oh, we just can't afford to compete! Oh, there's too much short term risk!". Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.