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

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.