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

And what direction is that?




| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Scott Klement
| Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 2:24 AM
|
|
| On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, James Rich wrote:
| >
| > > 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! :)
| >
|
| 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.