From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 8 14:07:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13179 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpha.netvision.net.il (alpha.netvision.net.il [194.90.1.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13124 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:07:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ycs@netvision.net.il) Received: from netvision.net.il (RAS3-p120.hfa.netvision.net.il [62.0.146.120]) by alpha.netvision.net.il (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA18008; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:05:59 +0300 (IDT) Message-ID: <35F58E86.EB6ABE7@netvision.net.il> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 23:07:34 +0300 From: Yoav Cohen-Sivan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: allen campbell CC: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle and Linux References: <199809081815.OAA02209@pechter.dyn.ml.org> <199809082013.NAA00438@dingo.cdrom.com> <19980908143112.A17826@verinet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org allen campbell wrote: > > > > Been there, done that. Do this even if you don't want it. You > can bet they are watching the numbers. > That would be a big mistake. Flood them with thousands of phoney requests, get them to commit megabucks in the Freenix space. Then, when they release the product, say: "Um, sorry... we just wanted you to port, we don't really need it." Having only 50 people buy it, after thousands clamored, will reach one goal only: you can bet Oracle will drop out of the Freenix scene for the next ten years. Not to mention them telling other companies what a waste of resources it was. Let true market forces work. No need to cheat someone into a port, when there is no real demand for it, just so we can say: "Look, we have ten gazillion apps..." > One administrator who recognizes the potential of Linux is worth > several ordinary admins, and one FreeBSD admin is worth at least > three or four typical Linux guys. :) Jordan wrote a really nice editorial for freshmeat.net, about a month ago, on this topic. Why do Linux and FreeBSD advocates hate each other so much? We are in this together. Yoav > Allen Campbell | Lurking at the bottom of the > allenc@verinet.com | gravity well, getting old. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message