From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 22 11:42:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 1stwebs.com (1stwebs.com [216.122.237.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B293037B430 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:42:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deven@netexplorer.org) Received: from netexplorer.org (IDENT:deven@nat-0-135.lightrealm.net [216.122.0.135]) by 1stwebs.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f5MIgMJ01692; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:42:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deven@netexplorer.org) Message-ID: <3B33918D.8080709@netexplorer.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:42:21 -0700 From: Deven Kampenhout User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010326 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joachim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?= Cc: Donn Miller , Kenneth Mays , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft uses FreeBSD References: <20010622071339.61802.qmail@web14703.mail.yahoo.com> <3B330731.C8D43DF0@ludd.luth.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joachim Strömbergson wrote: > > My 0.05 Euro on this is that Linux, not *BSD is the target because Linux > is the one the public generally knows about, it's the fastest (among the > others beside MS own systems) growing system and is generally perceived > as the new boy in town. > > The GPL is just a detail MS can aim for in their FUD attacks. The > business folks buying MS products are managers that (my generalisation) > are technically clueless, but somewhat better dealing with numbers, > dollars Euros and so on. > > These kinds of people react badly to words like "communism", "cancer" > and other fearful words that sounds bad for business. If MS can connect > (in the minds of the customers) Linux and FSF with such words and > phrases, Linux will have a much harder sale. > > MS are always trying to establish these kinds of words, phrases and > associations. "Freedom to innovate", anyone? You hit the nail right on the head, buddy. That is exactly why I don't appreciate the way M$ is bashing on open source. I can assure everyone that if FreeBSD and Linux were to switch places regarding popularity and market share, that M$ would be attacking FreeBSD and the BSD license just as vigorously. my additional $.02 - Deven Deven Kampenhout deven@netexplorer.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message