Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:22:40 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd vs. linux Message-ID: <1053455065.20050216182240@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <9bc3d91d804b3763ee925a656af7809d@chrononomicon.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEGIFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <77803d5ce17805187218b4cdfb6cc83d@HiWAAY.net> <762166945.20050215064015@wanadoo.fr> <cd316e498ebfbbb665f88c0a6b3cd136@chrononomicon.com> <1942537448.20050215184827@wanadoo.fr> <9bc3d91d804b3763ee925a656af7809d@chrononomicon.com>
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Bart Silverstrim writes: > Um, no. OS/2 had the Presentation Manager layer on it for the GUI. Presentation Manager was an afterthought, once they realized how far they had gone astray. > True to a point. Just because you have a GUI as the primary interface > it doesn't mean that the OS *must* have crappy administration tools. True. But in the case of Windows, that's exactly the situation. I had to administer servers with pcAnywhere. Have you ever used pcAnywhere over a dial-up line? > Because we were discussing at that particular point Apple, their GUI, > their OS. OS X = Darwin + Aqua. Let's return to discussion of FreeBSD, then. > Then once again, they profit from them and continue to profit by their > recertification. If they bother to recertify. > They are human advertisements, they are MS > evangelists by proxy, they reinforce market position, and they are > brainwashed into MS-centric solutions for everything thus encouraging > more purchases by the companies they work for/in from MS. They are not brainwashed by MS. They were that way long before they became MCSEs, otherwise they would not have become MCSEs. -- Anthony
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