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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!news 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 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <59ptg5$foi@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <sehari.851369526@eng3.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.152 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33228 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. -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |