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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!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!walter.cray.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!neteng!lm From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) 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: 5 Apr 1997 00:26:00 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5i466o$e3j@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <5i1216$gc4$1@news3.realtime.net> <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com> <5i2383$hjv$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <5i45ed$i9@flea.best.net> Reply-To: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: neteng.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19843 comp.os.linux.misc:168187 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38533 Matt Dillon (dillon@flea.best.net) wrote: : NT is basically a piece of shit, as is windows 95... but microsoft has : the marketing power and user base to impose it on the rest of the world : and most people do not know any better. : And, at the same time, most of the commercial UNIX vendors are too busy : infighting to address the issue. They spend their time developing 'open' : standards that are, in fact, proprietary, and trying to one-up : each other. It's idiotic. It's sorta like school children pushing and : shoving to get at the head of the line while a thousand pound gorilla is : bearing down on the snack bar. : What is so frightening about this whole thing is that most people : *actually* *believe* the crap microsoft is spewing out. Everything : microsoft puts out is second-rate and second-class, but most people : seem to believe that it's first-rate and first-class because it's : the only thing they are exposed to. : Personally, i think the operating system is so critical to our future : that it should not be under the control of any for-profit company. : Microsoft is almost single-handedly destroying the core that will : build our tomorrow. It makes me ill to think about where we would be : if they actually win... it would be a giant step backwards. Amen! -- --- Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804