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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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