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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!News.LiveNet.Net!beast From: jsloan@LiveNet.Net (Jim Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: Sat, 11 May 96 18:20:34 GMT Organization: LiveNet, Inc. Lines: 54 Message-ID: <4n2lpi$218_002@news.livenet.net> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <4n1u74$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: red.livnet.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 In article <4n1u74$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) wrote: >Stephane Russell <sstef@sprynet.com> wrote: > >> When I read this and all the other news articles alike, I >> understand more why Windows is selling better than Unices. It's >> amazing to see how every Unix groups are fighting against each >> others all the time. > >The problem is: it's basically okay to start a *technical* argument- >ation about the relative merits of this or that approach to solve some >technical problem. Since we are free Unices here, this argumentation >happens in public. For Windows or other commercial systems, this >argumentation happens behind closed doors, so you can't follow it that >easily. > >The only sad thing is that it regularly turns into some sort of flame >war since some of the "contributors" pop up with half-baked technical >knowledge, and replace the other half with religion (mainly to justify >for themselves that their own choice of the operating system was >right). You can, however, not really stop this, since it's basically >human (or human instinct to defend something you've decided or done). > >> Don't forget that Microsoft target is to see one day Windows NT on >> every desktop computers of the world. And Microsoft certainly have >> the resources to do so. > >No, at least not with _exactly_ this attitude. :) If there are N >desktop computers in the world, there will always be at most N - M >of them running Microsloth systems, with M >= 3. (The three in the >last expression are the desktop computers i own myself, the actual >M will be higher since i think there are more people like me.) ;-) > >-- >cheers, J"org > >joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE >Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > Well, I know that M will be at least 10 then :) since I have 7 systems that will never see mucro$loth on them, currently of which 5 are running FreeBSD, 1 BSD/OS, and one linux. I do have 3 other machines running MS garbage, only because of the need to support customers and develop software for their desktops. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Sloan jsloan@livenet.net Vice President LiveNet, Inc. 413 Davis St. Suite 106 Full Service Internet Provider Virginia Beach VA 23462 Dialup and dedicated connections Ph: 804-499-9328 Virtual Web, Email, and FTP hosting http://www.livenet.net info@livenet.net webmaster@livenet.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------