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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: 11 May 1996 11:38:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4n1u74$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <3191ADA0.41C67EA6@sprynet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Stephane Russell <sstef@sprynet.com> wrote: > When I read this and all the other news articles alike, I > understand more why Windows is selling better than Unices. It's > amazing to see how every Unix groups are fighting against each > others all the time. The problem is: it's basically okay to start a *technical* argument- ation about the relative merits of this or that approach to solve some technical problem. Since we are free Unices here, this argumentation happens in public. For Windows or other commercial systems, this argumentation happens behind closed doors, so you can't follow it that easily. The only sad thing is that it regularly turns into some sort of flame war since some of the "contributors" pop up with half-baked technical knowledge, and replace the other half with religion (mainly to justify for themselves that their own choice of the operating system was right). You can, however, not really stop this, since it's basically human (or human instinct to defend something you've decided or done). > Don't forget that Microsoft target is to see one day Windows NT on > every desktop computers of the world. And Microsoft certainly have > the resources to do so. No, at least not with _exactly_ this attitude. :) If there are N desktop computers in the world, there will always be at most N - M of them running Microsloth systems, with M >= 3. (The three in the last expression are the desktop computers i own myself, the actual M will be higher since i think there are more people like me.) ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)