From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Nov 3 09:17:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07262 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 09:17:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07257 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 09:17:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id JAA16529; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 09:15:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id JAA01168; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 09:15:41 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id KAA28388; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 10:15:39 -0700 Message-ID: <363F3A3B.2C4F2B9B@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 10:15:39 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Phillip Salzman CC: "Kenton A. Hoover" , Open Systems Networking , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the Halloween Document References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Phillip Salzman wrote: > > Yes, it is clear MS does not do their homework... I guess that is > why Linux is able to gain market share. You also have to remember, > Microsoft started late into the Internet boom, and is not clear > on how to win the race anymore. > > Before it was all money, how they are dealing with several operating > systems that are free. I think by the end of the century MS will have > a free OS, like Linux and FreeBSD. As several prominent Linuxers have pointed out, Microsoft can't really "hijack" Linux. They certainly can, however, produce "MS-BSD", and can do it quite quickly. (How long does it take to add a Microsoft copyright to every source and binary file in the FreeBSD distribution? See what I mean?) While I'm not that hyped on the idea of Microsoft attempting to dominate the market through yet another soon-to-be-proprietary standard, it sure would be straightforward to implement an "MS-BSD" binary emulator in FreeBSD, wouldn't it? This might even give us "Office" for FreeBSD. What a pleasant thought. ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message