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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!news.jhu.edu!aplcenmp!netnews.jhuapl.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!csn!news-1.csn.net!ub!ns1.potsdam.edu!news From: nelson@ns.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 17 Apr 1996 14:12:52 GMT Organization: Crynwr Software Lines: 31 Message-ID: <NELSON.96Apr17101252@ns.crynwr.com> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <4l2fl2$7hk@sidhe.memra.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns.crynwr.com In-reply-to: michael@memra.com's message of 17 Apr 1996 03:03:14 -0700 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21477 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:612 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3228 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3048 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17445 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45723 In article <4l2fl2$7hk@sidhe.memra.com> michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) writes: > In article <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com>, > Russell Nelson <nelson@ns.crynwr.com> wrote: > > >If they could buy a computer with Linux and (a fully functional) Wine > >installed, they would use it with no hesitation. > > > >In order to create a market for Linux, we need to say, and say again, > >that Linux is THE ONLY RELIABLE 32-bit desktop operating system. The > >only other choices simply are not up to the task. > > But it's not. FreeBSD and NetBSD are also reliable 32-bit desktop > OSes as is OS/2. And WINE is anything but reliable and my personal > opinion from several years of reading Microsoft Systems Journal and 2 > years of watching the WINE project is that WINE will never be a reliable > and fully compatible Windows execution environment You don't understand. Microsoft controls its markets by pushing out all competition. They have to -- their products cannot compete on their own. Linux has to compete on its benefits -- that it is free, comes with source and is reliable. No other mass-market operating system can claim this. The *BSD* people have abandoned the desktop. Fine, let them have a hobby operating system. We're going to go for the big bucks. -- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/~nelson Crynwr Software | Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | PGP ok 11 Grant St. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | If you would seek peace, Potsdam, NY 13676 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | first seek freedom