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On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Scott Klement wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, James Rich wrote:
> >
> > 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.

Oh dear, I'm afraid that I am guilty of typing before thinking.  Scott, we
are certainly not adversaries.  The wars I was thinking of are those one
reads about on /. and other places.  I apologize that my comments
indicated any rancor.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com



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