From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 10 04:05:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA14110 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 04:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA14097 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 04:05:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA01553; Sun, 10 May 1998 04:04:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199805101104.EAA01553@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jan B. Koum " cc: Brett Glass , Jason Nordwick , The Classiest Man Alive , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux as a Mozilla total reference platform In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 May 1998 02:15:12 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 04:04:50 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Technological leads are temporary . Perhaps in a year from now linux will be sufficiently strong in the server market and even if it is not so the plague of insect like fanatics will probably convince even Bill Gates to use linux. They do behave like insects or a weird virus. Amancio > On Sun, 10 May 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > > >At 02:21 AM 5/10/98 +0000, Jason Nordwick wrote: > > > >>You'll probably just get the same B.S. that everybody else is > >>giving: they don't want to get involve in any BSD vs. BSD or > >>Linux vs. BSD things, which is just blatanly wrong, we are all > >>grownup here. > > > >Well, in a sense, it's true. They DON'T want to get involved in any > >"Linux vs. BSD things." They want to pick the best seller, just as > >they did with Windows, and support it -- whether or not it is the best > >choice. > > > >FreeBSD has about a year to achieve near-parity with Linux or it may > >be in trouble because of this pattern of behavior. Think it can be done? > > > >--Brett > > > No, we will not be in trouble. We are very strong in the > server/high load computing to be in trouble. Then again, I am biased. :) > > -- Yan > > P.S. I took -advacacy off now. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message