Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 19:24:22 -0700 From: dmorrisn <dmorrisn@u.washington.edu> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, James Love <love@cptech.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Message-ID: <36158AD6.811BD16E@u.washington.edu> References: <23307.907176696@time.cdrom.com> <4.1.19981002190913.040f3b60@mail.lariat.org>
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> >Linux compatibility is one of the > >most important features of FreeBSD. As the market for commercial Linux > >applications grows, so does the market for commercial FreeBSD applications. > > History has proven exactly the opposite. The introduction of Windows > application support in OS/2 actually accelerated its demise. If FreeBSD > starts billing itself as "a better Linux than Linux" it will fall into > precisely the same trap and will never catch up. That is a rhetorical fallacy. (Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc -- "After this therefore because of this") The reason OS/2 died was because IBM and Microsoft couldn't get along. That's why Microsoft cut them off. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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