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Date:      Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:12:35 -0500
From:      Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Guess we've lost the server market too...?
Message-ID:  <19990303131235.A1022@netmonger.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990303013618.E25217@futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 01:36:18AM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903022312170.59717-100000@thelab.hub.org> <39909.920444937@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990303013618.E25217@futuresouth.com>

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On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 01:36:18AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> Intel's chipped in a bit to Linux.  Now here's IBM (pretty darn big, in
> Jordan's words) doing it too.  Dell (I think?) has said they'll begin
> shipping systems with Linux.  They've pretty well hit critical mass, and
> it's just going to snowball.  The mainstream market has found it's
> blue-eyed baby boy.
> 
> Bad?  Good?  I'm not going to pass judgement on this.  Have we 'lost' the

Good is that there is a choice.  Microsoft's stranglehold is being
broken.  We will be able to buy computers that don't come with
software we don't want preinstalled on them.

Yesterday it was Windows only.  Today it's Windows or Linux.
"One, Two, Many".
-- 
Christopher Masto        Director of Operations      NetMonger Communications
chris@netmonger.net        info@netmonger.net        http://www.netmonger.net

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