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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 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4l5ltp$4pa@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's Machine References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <NELSON.96Apr17101252@ns.crynwr.com> <3175DBD4.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <4l5f31$ijv@solaria.cc.gatech.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:08:41 GMT Lines: 33 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21826 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:708 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3346 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3188 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17727 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46380 In article <4l5f31$ijv@solaria.cc.gatech.edu>, Byron A Jeff <byron@cc.gatech.edu> wrote: >In article <3175DBD4.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org>, >Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>Russell Nelson wrote: >>> 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. >> >>Not going for the desktop hardly equals "Hobby operating system", you've >>simply got this weird (and wholly naive) obsession that the "desktop is >>the computer", like some Sun marketing droid who took too much LSD >>during the 60's and is now having a flashback to end all flashbacks. > >Jordan, > >While I have to admit that Russell's views are quite close to the edge >(like over ;-) his core premise is sound. We cannot concede the desktop. > >However first we have to fulfill two or three basic premises: > >- Deliver at a cheaper cost (Got that one covered) >- Deliver a better product (Got that one covered too) >- Deliver a product that performs just about the same functions and in >a manner that the user is used to (This is the kicker) > Let me add something to item 3 above, the new "thing" needs to be fully interoperable. Likely the fileformats need to be the same as the predominant. Using your car analogy, you also need to operate on the same roads. NONE of the free U**X software that I know of supports WORD-6, WORD-7 files... John