RE: Re: Viability of Linux companies

[Raju Mathur <raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're right, Arun.  I have seen the Light, as have all the ex-GPL
advocates on this list.  MS is God, BSD is God's Prophet, and you are
Moses bringing the Word to the Masses.  We bow to your superior
understanding and swear alliegance to the One True God of Mammon, and
promise never to worship graven images (aka FSF & Co) again.

Now that We Have Got The Message, would you be kind enough to take
your custom to some Other Backward People and leave us alone?

Thank you,

-- Raju

>>>>> "Arun" == Arun Sharma <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    >> Yeah sure... if it was open source from the beginning ... Linus
    >> wouldn't have written an OS in the first place ! (And there
    >> would have been a stable Free OS ages ago... there would never
    >> have been an M$FT or Bill Gates!)

    Arun> I see Windows 95 as the OS that changed everything for
    Arun> MSFT. Linux existed for 5 years, by that time. What did it
    Arun> change ?

    Arun> As has been noted by many historians, BSD was a stable free
    Arun> OS in 1995. Many people argue that it was technically better
    Arun> than Linux at that point. It's a pity that they didn't
    Arun> support IDE disks and extended partitions (they don't
    Arun> support it even today).

    Arun> In the end, Linux "won", at least in numbers and PR, just
    Arun> like you accuse MSFT of doing. Search the web for "worse is
    Arun> better".

    Arun> MSFT has data which says that people find it easier to
    Arun> navigate to Tools -> Options, than Edit -> Preferences. How
    Arun> is an open source hacker going to get access to it ? The
    Arun> point is, finding this data costs money.  There is no viable
    Arun> GPL based business model, which supports this research.  In
    Arun> BSD land, there is.

    Arun> Still in the mood for some more ? How about originality ?
    Arun> BSD is where vi happened, TCP/IP happened. Both FreeBSD and
    Arun> NetBSD have their virtual memory subsystems derived out of a
    Arun> PhD thesis. Perhaps you should hang out on freebsd-hackers
    Arun> for a while and judge the quality of discussion ?

    Arun> 	-Arun
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Raju Mathur          raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx           http://kandalaya.org/