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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!pull-feed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ix.netcom.com!news.he.net!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 23:05:59 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3341DB27.2781E494@freebsd.org> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5g9hjp$api@flea.best.net> <5gmb58$6jd$1@news.clinet.fi> <5gn3ig$83d@flea.best.net> <5goqrq$5ak$1@news.clinet.fi> <5hd29s$e7t@fido.asd.sgi.com> <333C1614.ABD@sgi01.grn.aera.com> <5hhv1k$jh9@fido.asd.sgi.com> <333E3530.794B@sgi01.grn.aera.com> <333EA3EF.41C67EA6@consys.com> <333EE416.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> <5hn00k$dio@fido.asd.sgi.com> <333F45A6.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <5hpolu$9t2@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3340CC28.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <5hs06d$jtt@fido.asd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38339 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6562 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29633 Larry McVoy wrote: > > Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > : Your premise hangs off the conclusion that BSD is dead and can't offer a > : significantly useful alternative to Linux. > > It's far from dead. It's also far from having any significant impact on > the market place. > That is an interesting view that I don't quite understand. Firstly, FreeBSD directly or indirectly is affecting positively a significant number of people's lives, either economically or intellectually. Secondly, the alternative to FreeBSD (or *BSD) in a lot of applications isn't free or GPL encumbered software, but it is commercial software. John