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Date:      Sat, 13 Feb 1999 22:45:11 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linus on IRC
Message-ID:  <199902132245.PAA00182@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <7a2i48$md2$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> from "Christian Weisgerber" at Feb 13, 99 01:48:08 am

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> Like it or not, Linux is the Unix market leader.

Pull the other one.

Solaris has 5000 times as many applications as Linux.

Linux is the Apple of the UNIX market.


> Linux isn't technically bad.

Yes, it is, from a commercial standpoint.  So is BSD.  Both of them
have interfaces that change far too frequently to be worthwhile
porting all the software that exists to them.  You write something
for DOS or Windows, and it continues to run forever.  Same for
Solaris, save for the foot-shot of the switch to SVR4, which was
necessary because BSD couldn't do SMP.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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