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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The only way to keep FreeBSD viable in competition with linux
Date: 25 Dec 1996 00:45:57 GMT
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In article <sehari.851369526@eng3.iastate.edu>,
	sehari@iastate.edu (Babak $ehari) writes:
> 
> True, FreeBSD has some advantages over Linux.  However, not always the
> best product survive in the market place.  VHS/Beta, Mac/IBM are just few
> examples of these.  Therefore, those who care to keep FreeBSD alive
> should start thinking hard to ways to confront Linux head to head,
> before it is too late.

I was not aware that FreeBSD was in such a moribund state.

[ ... ]

> With out the above measures, FreeBSD, fade away in the Linux world, as
> did Beta, or Mac.

To paraphrase whoever it was: the reports of the demise of FreeBSD are
greatly exaggerated.

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Conrad Sabatier                  | 
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