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Date:      Fri, 02 Oct 1998 19:10:48 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        James Love <love@cptech.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981002190913.040f3b60@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <36127E46.C50BA0DF@softweyr.com>
References:  <23307.907176696@time.cdrom.com>

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At 12:53 PM 9/30/98 -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
 
>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.

--Brett


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