From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 21 13:39:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA07946 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 13:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA07830 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 13:39:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id PAA14080; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 15:37:56 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199609212037.PAA14080@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Job openings: Unix Network Programmers, Internet server To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 15:37:56 -0500 (CDT) Cc: julian@current1.whistle.com, Rich.Heaton@empac.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <11980.843326832@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 21, 96 10:27:12 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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