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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
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Do you really attribute NT's success to its lack of confusing kernel
options and the like?  Come on . . . if NT really tended to DTRT where
FreeBSD didn't you'd be using NT instead.

On Wed, 14 May 1997, Donald J. Maddox wrote:

> I can see that this is about to turn into one of those 'BSD-tradition vs.
> common sense' debates, and I have no desire to participate in that; common
> sense cannot win because the traditionalists never relent, and without
> consensus, the status quo remains just that.
> 
> Meanwhile, WindowsNT's market share continues to climb, supplanting what
> *might* have been FreeBSD market share...  Too bad for us that they aren't
> saddled with a 'traditional' steep learning curve...
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
>                                             Donald J. Maddox
>                                             (dmaddox@scsn.net)
> 
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."