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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newstand.syr.edu!jdimpson From: jdimpson@newstand.syr.edu (Jeremy D. Impson) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Followup-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 3 Apr 1997 01:06:55 GMT Organization: that wacky place known as Syracuse U. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5huvrf$ll2@newstand.syr.edu> References: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> <333cddd8.1017100@news.sprynet.com> Reply-To: jdimpson@mailbox.syr.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: gamera.syr.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19696 comp.os.linux.misc:167677 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38323 Goatboy (lcappite@sprynet.com) wrote: <snip> : >8. People running UNIX aren't at the mercy of Microsoft. Chances are if : > something needs to be changed with the O/S, some independent programmer : > will do it. : WinNT an 95 aren't at ms's mercy. And if u want to change the OS, you : can. What's there to stop you? Well, if you are in any kind of production business, you tend to commit a lot of money/time/effort to one (or one set of) operating system(s). If it turns out that the principle developer for the system doesn't do what you want it to do, then you are going to lose a lot of invested money/time/effort, either by switching the OS or doing without. So you really can't pick up and switch OS', at least not without considereable thought and significant loss. --Jeremy -- Jeremy Impson http://web.syr.edu/~jdimpson/ Undergraduate, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Computer Science and Spanish Literature & Language SysAdmin, Orange Source On-Line Publication