From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 22 2:13: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from maile.telia.com (maile.telia.com [194.22.190.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 319BB37B401 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 02:12:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from watchman@ludd.luth.se) Received: from d1o907.telia.com (d1o907.telia.com [195.252.38.241]) by maile.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f5M9Cu008162; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:12:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ludd.luth.se (h55n1fls21o907.telia.com [212.181.140.55]) by d1o907.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00323; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:52:45 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3B330731.C8D43DF0@ludd.luth.se> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:52:01 +0200 From: Joachim =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?= Organization: Acne X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donn Miller Cc: Kenneth Mays , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft uses FreeBSD References: <20010622071339.61802.qmail@web14703.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aloha! Donn Miller wrote: > > --- Kenneth Mays wrote: > > > Microsoft focuses its attacks on Linux. They know they can't compete > > head-to-head well against FreeBSD or even BSDI Internet Server on > > that note > > (on the server level). > > Actually, the reason MS hates Linux so much is because the Linux kernel > is GPL'd. Secondly, the Linux community has this "destroy Microsoft" > mentality (not that I blame them though). My 0.05 Euro on this is that Linux, not *BSD is the target because Linux is the one the public generally knows about, it's the fastest (among the others beside MS own systems) growing system and is generally perceived as the new boy in town. The GPL is just a detail MS can aim for in their FUD attacks. The business folks buying MS products are managers that (my generalisation) are technically clueless, but somewhat better dealing with numbers, dollars Euros and so on. These kinds of people react badly to words like "communism", "cancer" and other fearful words that sounds bad for business. If MS can connect (in the minds of the customers) Linux and FSF with such words and phrases, Linux will have a much harder sale. MS are always trying to establish these kinds of words, phrases and associations. "Freedom to innovate", anyone? -- Med vänlig hälsning, Cheers! Joachim Strömbergson ============================================================================ Joachim Strömbergson - ASIC designer, nice to *cute* animals. snail: phone: mail & web: Sävenäsgatan 5A +46 31 - 27 98 47 watchman@ludd.luth.se 416 72 Göteborg +46 733 75 97 02 www.ludd.luth.se/~watchman ============================================================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message