Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:17:09 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "David Leimbach" <leimbacd@bellsouth.net>, "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Alla El Gohary" <allaelgohary@bftech.co.eg> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Why Linux Message-ID: <000901c11990$cf9f6780$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <01073018531000.00855@mutt.home.net>
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Actually, the lawsuit contributed to it but really, it was mostly just bad timing. If the lawsuit had happened and been settled a year earlier, it would have not mattered. Just keep this in mind - this is really a Turtle and Hare race. People rail against Microsoft being a monopoly today, but they forget that Microsoft spent year after year after year releasing piss-poor products and patch after patch after patch on those products. In short, they concentrated on making things work for the customers that bought their products. That's what got them to the top of the pile, and it was only later on once they had gotten corrupted by having absolute power that they stopped concentrating on making things work for their customers and started concentrating on making things work for themselves. Linux is real flashy right now and attacting a lot of attention, but it's the slow, steady, reliability and stability that matters. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Leimbach >Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 4:53 PM >To: Kris Kennaway; Alla El Gohary >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Why Linux > > >The reason Linux took off instead of FreeBSD probably goes back the the AT&T >lawsuit. There were some issues over the word UNIX and some other >stuff that >was settled when Novell bought Unix from AT&T. At approximately the same >time Linux was born and had none of the legal implications of the *BSD's. > >People like Alan Cox have admitted they "almost" tried FreeBSD. So it seems >it was all a matter of timing. Even Linus cites the lawsuit in his >book Just >for Fun. Don't buy it... Just go to a bookstore and read that page. :) > >Dave >On Monday 30 July 2001 18:34, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 09:16:39PM +0300, Alla El Gohary wrote: >> > I've been using FreeBSD for more than 3 years,I implemented various >> > network services at numorous locations including database applications on >> > PostgreSQL installed on FreeBSD FreeBSD is extremely stable ,nearly NO >> > ADMINISTRATION needed . >> > I tried redhat LINUX its ok but its stability is not compared to that of >> > FreeBSD Why is it spreading that fast and FreeBSD is not ? >> >> Why VHS and not Beta? Why PC and not Mac? Why Coke and not Pepsi? >> >> Kris > >---------------------------------------- >Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; >name="Attachment: 1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Description: >---------------------------------------- > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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