On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 12:26:43PM -0700, Curt Sampson wrote: > If you figure that showing an example of a mission-critical, 24x7 > system running on freely available open source software will not > help Linux's cause, that's fine. Just put me in the `not running > Linux' camp, along with all the Windows NT users out there. > > Nevertheless, I will continue to recommend Linux to many people, > as I have been doing for the past few years.
I agree wholeheartedly. The greatest accomplishment of the open
source movement, is a mind frame that transcends petty-minded
divisions. While the main focus in this group may be linux, we
should see ourselves as members of a larger family with very
similar ideals.
GNU, FSF, *BSD and linux are all part of a shift in paradigm,
which is what the real story is here. Not the fact that someone
has chosen Operating System X over Y.
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Luc Dierckx
Systems Manager
Laboratory for Computational Intelligence
University of British Columbia
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