From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 15 12:33:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA04335 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA04323 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:33:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA26313; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:27:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3353D692.41C67EA6@whistle.com> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:27:14 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Reed CC: "David S. Miller" , 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) References: <199704151338.GAA09651@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Darren Reed wrote: > > 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. I have a a couple of counterexamples for you but of course they are probably not commonly known because they don't WANT it commonly known..