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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Why *BSD's have smaller user base ? Message-ID: <hastyCzJ2t0.CwK@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <3a9205$bqj@mall.sinica.edu.tw> <HARDING.94Nov15100354@gecko.newt.fsa.ca> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 18:46:12 GMT Lines: 25 In article <HARDING.94Nov15100354@gecko.newt.fsa.ca> harding@newt.fsa.ca (Carson Harding) writes: > >ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw () writes: > > As Jordan posted here, I just wonder why *BSD's have fewer users. I don't > think A-is-betther-than-B is the answer. It must have be some other > historical factors, rather than technical ones. I think that 386bsd had a large momentum when it started;however, when Novel/USL decided to sue BSDI many got worried about getting involved with 386bsd. Furthermore, when USL decided to contact the Walnut Creek CDROM and a couple of other companies selling *BSD systems it aggravated the situation. Strategically, the lack of marketing and disklike of DOS by many in the core team of *BSD systems has not help to attract the DOS sector. Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, netaudio, tcl/tk, MIME, midi,sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant Home: (415) 495-3046 e-mail hasty@netcom.com