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From: Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ...
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 02:32:15 +0200
Organization: MTS Technology, Sweden
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Stephane Russell 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.
That's mostley not *fighting*. Most people on this newsgroup prefers
dicussions.
> 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.
MS doesn't have any such holey mission. They only wants to make as
much money as possible, selling software that they think their target
customers wants. I can assure you that even MS knows that Unix, and
many other OSes, always will continue to exist regardless how much
advertising they will do. And I can also assure you that users of
free OSes (like FreeBSD, Linux etc) is *not* MS target as they wouldn't
like to give their products away for free, and much less the source
code of them. NT only competes agianst some commercial Unix developers
(like SCO and Sun), but only is some limited applications. Even in some
of those cases NT isn't able to replace Unix as it still lacks many
important concepts to do so (like native multiuser support etc).
> And what about Windows 95, OS/2 and MAC computers? Are they
> leaving room for those fights? All of them have strong features
> that Unices have to compete with.
FreeBSD's mission is *not* to kill MS or Apple or any such things. Not
even commercial and supported (non-free) unices like BSDI, Solaris,
SCO is any 'enemies' to FreeBSD. I actually think the best thing with
FreeBSD is that it's goal is not to replace every PC or Mac OSes.
The mission is simply to make the best possible free Unix. If people
want to use it is simply up to them. I like that attitude!
If you want the best free Unix; use FreeBSD.
If you don't want Unix at all; don't use FreeBSD.
> will take NetBSD. In Windows NT, your stuck with Windows NT.
That's not different than from other commercial OSes (like VMS,
NextStep, MacOS, Solaris, MVS, OS/2 etc etc). If you want no
reliance on a commercial developer you should indeed use a free
Unix (like FreeBSD or Linux) wich has the source fully avaible
to you. Commercial OS also have their place in the world (with
their controlled sourcecode and support).
Enjoy Unix (and FreeBSD especially), but don't make it into a
mission into replacing everyone elses OSes.
Best regards,
m a r t i n n - User of several free and commercial OSes
(FreeBSD, OS/2, Solaris, NT, VMS).
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