From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 1 9:44: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0366937B403 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 09:44:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1099"@[136.142.20.138]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K5F0Z6FSAS002VRE@mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 12:44:01 EST Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 12:45:59 -0700 From: Pedro F Giffuni Subject: Re: Linux markets (Was: Microsoft giving back to FreeBSD !!) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3B3F7DF7.BAFAE126@pitt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <3B3A2E2F.A74DDCC8@pitt.edu> <3B3A2ECF.6FECA0E3@Silver-Lynx.com> <20010630061123.E20203@hades.hell.gr> <3B3DD475.B44E9882@Silver-Lynx.com> <15166.21045.915907.930733@guru.mired.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Linux represents Pareto's law: less than 15% of the market that causes more than 85% of the costs (custumer support, complaints, etc). The linux commercial market made a mistake; they ported to an inmature platform and an unfriendly community. If we could focus on them saving their act (based on these latest Microsoft event), the world would be safe and balance restored 8). Now...what about Borland? Is kylix also dying? I would like to see that for FreeBSD too. Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message