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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!super.zippo.com!zdc-e!nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.uio.no!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.webspan.net!usenet From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net> 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: 3 Apr 1997 19:27:05 GMT Organization: WebSpan Inc., New Jersey Lines: 17 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970403143227.1345A-100000@dolphin.inna.net> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5hn00k$dio@fido.asd.sgi.com> <333F45A6.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <5hpolu$9t2@fido.asd.sgi.com> <5hq3qi$2nr$1@nef.ens.fr> <5hq7dg$3a6@fido.asd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dolphin.inna.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5hq7dg$3a6@fido.asd.sgi.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38360 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6571 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29645 On 1 Apr 1997, Larry McVoy wrote: > one source base on all platforms, or (b) NT. The MIS directors are > voting heavily for NT. Why? Because the vendors behave very much like > the *BSD crowd - each one talking about how their value is better or Uh Larry, MIS people vote for NT because they aren't scared of it. Most of them have no clue how to use UNIX since MIS is primarily a business/management degree. The PHB's don't give a shit about performance or anything else. All they care about is not having to think. Jamie Bowden Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.