[geeks] A Real OS? (was: Re: my capitalization.. etc.)

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> Hell, Solaris x86 is technically *way* superior to Linux, as are
> the  *BSD's.


And all are technically superior to Windows, but look which has the
market share of computers worldwide. 



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- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter L. Wargo" <pwargo at basenji.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] A Real OS? (was: Re: my capitalization.. etc.)


> On Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 08:58 PM, Eric Dittman wrote:
> 
> > But what makes you think Linus became a prick?
> 
> Reading his words, see ing his actions.  I met him online shortly
> after  he released his first kernel. (I was a sysop on the UNIX
> roundtable on  GEnie.)  Very nice guy.  Now he believes all the
> hype, and that he is  somehow become all-knowing about the computer
> industry.  Too bad, he was  a nice guy.
> 
> > I think you'll find IBM, Sun, HPaq, etc. disagree.
> 
> You may not realize this, but big companies are very prone to
> "jumping  on the hype bandwagon" If they think it can generate
> sales.  Linux  (which is mostly gnu stuff anyway!) is the flavor of
> the month, so  everybody wants a piece of it.  The average schmoe
> on the street has  heard of it, so they do what they need to gain
> market share.
> 
> Hell, Solaris x86 is technically *way* superior to Linux, as are
> the  *BSD's.
> 
> -Pete
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