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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD...
Followup-To: alt.flame
Date: 23 Dec 1995 04:38:14 -0800
Organization: Every flame is sacred, every flame is great
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In article <4b9cp5$7gj@news.ox.ac.uk>, Billy Chow <stccmc> wrote:
>orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc) wrote:
>>In article <khan.819260489@olympic>,
>>Khan Klatt <khan@olympic.pacificrim.net> wrote:
>>
>>>You ***may*** be able to run the Netscape Commerce Server (for BSDI) on a
>>>FreeBSD or NetBSD box, but I'd place a small bet that you can't on Linux.
>>
>> If I was a gambling man, I'd take that bet.
>>
>> Tell me, when will WordPerfect be ported to FreeBSD? And while
>>you're at it, can you tell me just what good this pitiful dickwaving
>>over basically identical systems will do except for amusing Microsoft
>>while the free unix camps get labeled as a bunch of humorless morons
>>who can't be trusted with mission-critical software? Jesus, the
>>engineers at Netscape have already said that the future of
>>operating systems is NT, so why don't we try just a little harder
>>to kill off Linux and FreeBSD, just to make sure that no version of
>>Unix will survive to disprove that horrific prediction.
>
>Are you saying that there will be one and only one OS--NT-- which will satisfy
>the computing needs of all people?
Oh, yes, of course; it's the Wave Of The Future(tm), and pay no
attention to my little garden of machines (2x freebsd 2.0.5, 4x
linux 1.2.13) -- they're just my prostitutes in the closet that all
REAL evangelists must have.
____
david parsons \bi/ But wait! I've got windows on one of the workstations
\/ here, and I know a *Real* *Developer* who's running NT!