Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 15:37:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: julian@current1.whistle.com, Rich.Heaton@empac.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Job openings: Unix Network Programmers, Internet server Message-ID: <199609212037.PAA14080@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <11980.843326832@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 21, 96 10:27:12 am
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> Richard told me yesterday that Microsoft recently announced a
> multi-billion (yes, billion) dollar initiative to make NT *the*
> network operating system in 1997, and that's a whole heck of a lot of
> money. It's time for small companies involved with UNIX to pool their
> efforts or Bill is going to eat them all. He might eat them anyway,
> in the long run, but I'd really hate to look back on this time and
> reflect that we made it easy for him to do so by squabbling amongst
> ourselves while Microsoft raced ahead. I think the UNIX community has
> already done far too much of that already and it's time for a change.
{386,Net,Free,Open}BSD. :-(
What you are saying is certainly wise, I have no doubts about that.
I am just a little dismayed at how things have developed... we could
really use this advice with respect to our multiple working OS development
groups. :-(
... JG
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