Re: Linus/ESR hype (was RE: Changed to: Interactive Tax)

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 jt@ee.net writes:


> Subj: RE: Linus/ESR hype (was RE: Changed to: Interactive Tax)
> Date: 12/30/2001 7:35:06 AM Eastern Standard Time
> From:    jt@ee.net (jt)
> Sender:    midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:midrange-l@midrange.com";>midrange-l@midrange.com</A>
> To:    midrange-l@midrange.com
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> And what direction is that?
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> | -----Original Message-----
> | [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Scott Klement
> | Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 2:24 AM
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> | On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, James Rich wrote:
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> | > > is the kind of hype I have a hard time stomaching.  But
> | there's no real
> | > > evaluation of OS vs. OS in this industry, much...  That's my
> | gripe, more
> | >
> | > I guess you don't follow the linux-*BSD wars then...  (hi Scott! :)
> | >
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> | Wars?  That's overstating it quite a bit.  I program & support
> | software on both Linux and FreeBSD.  I like them both, but prefer FreeBSD.
> |
> | My biggest complaint with Linux is that it's reached the point of
> | popularity where people think like "Open Source = Linux = GPL".  And
> | that's not true.   Likewise, I don't like it when people think
> | "Computers = Intel = Windows".
> |
> | I've certainly never felt that you & I were adversaries.  I've always felt
> | that we were looking in more or less the same direction.
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