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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.kei.com!ddsw1!usenet From: jim.fleming@bytes.com (Jim Fleming) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD?! Date: 27 Feb 1995 04:53:06 GMT Organization: bytes.com Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3irlri$7f@News1.mcs.com> References: <3ira54$7vq@quandong.itd.adelaide.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.3.34.11 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.90.5 >In article <3ira54$7vq@quandong.itd.adelaide.edu.au>, mikey@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Davies) says: > >You guys at *BSD _had_ a great opportunity to see a BSD running on the >world's zillion Intel-based PCs. But your infighting and refusal to merge >has seen people go to the anarchic linux platform. Sorry, that hurts I >know, but it's the truth. You've missed your chance. You can continue to >develop all you like, and continue to flame one another, and linux, forever. >But you'll never have anymore than a token following due to your pride and >refusal to built a common product. > In my opinion, we all need to come together and recognize that UNIX, Linux, BSD and a variety of other O/Ses now provide us with a stable 32 bit platform which can now be used to launch the next generation of object-oriented technology. I am not sure that the commonality will be important at the low-level of the O/S. The frontier in commonality has now moved up several notches to the GUI, the applications and to distributed object technology. If you follow comp.object, you will get a better idea of where this sort of technology is heading. I think that you will find that the O/S wars are largely over. Unfortunately, the object wars are just beginning. Jim Fleming Unir Technology, Inc. Naperville, IL 60563