Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 12:45:30 -0700 From: Dann Lunsford <dann@greycat.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows)) Message-ID: <20000701124530.A36442@greycat.com>
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I've been thinking about the Linuxulator a bit lately (trying to get a DVD player from Linux on my FreeBSD laptop), and the analogy in $SUBJECT hit me. It has always seemed to me that one of the worst things that IBM did was make the Windoze subsystem of OS/2 too good; there was no need for anyone to produce OS/2 stuff, since OS/2 people could simply use the Windoze version of Product X (I can recall being told *exactly* this from >10 vendors). This despite the fact that native versions would perform better, be able to have more features, etc. Now I'm worried. We all know what happened to OS/2; is there a danger of the same thing happening to FreeBSD? I think there is. I recently saw that Applix was considering dropping FreeBSD as a platform, in favor of Linux only; I wrote them a polite protest, as I'm sure a lot of you did, and was pleased to see later that Applixware-FreeBSD would continue. However, that announcement was lukewarm, and left, in my mind, at least, a distinct impression that they would prefer to just concentrate on Linux. I saw precisely the same attitudes from vendors wrt OS/2 vs Windoze. Now, I freely admit to being a bit paranoid; but, as the saying goes, paranoids can have real enemies, too. Thoughts? -- Dann Lunsford The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil Idann@greycat.com is that men of good will do nothing. -- Cicero To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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