Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:21:03 -0400 From: "Kenneth Mays" <kmays2000@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft uses FreeBSD Message-ID: <LAW2-F147ZhCl8aii0800007c04@hotmail.com>
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Let's see if this works without HTNL... I may be wrong, but Microsoft was trying to use "Linux" as the arguement for corporate use of reliable mission-critical servers. Basically, Microsoft felt that open-source operating systems are more subject to hacker abuse than its own Windows OS. They claim they don't use open source on their front-end systems, but I did remember them saying they used some of them on the backend systems - namely FreeBSD. Does this mean that their employees and contractors don't have Linux/FreeBSD-oriented OSes in their locker rooms and briefcases?!? Anyone working in media or journalism would be FOOLISH to think a large corporation like Microsoft would not make use of the open-source market in one way or another if even for QA purpose against their own software development practices and Internet server toolsets. Microsoft can't expect Windows to do it all, neither can it expect FreeBSD to do it all (although it can do it better than Windows in some ways). Think about it, over 4000+ packages exist in most of the distributions of Linux and even FreeBSD. Why would ANY corporation not take advantage of the utilities and applications out there which are FREE in most cases?? StarOffice and KOffice in comparision to Microsoft Office XP are a major achievement of what can be done in the open-source market. Microsoft focuses its attacks on Linux. They know they can't compete head-to-head well against FreeBSD or even BSDI Internet Server on that note (on the server level). Nuff' Said...back to -STABLE. -Ken "I don't know it all, otherwise life would be meaningless." _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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