Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning

[Jeremiah Cornelius <jeremiah () nur net>]

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On Tuesday 04 November 2003 06:18, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:51:09 MST, Michael Gale said:
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> > Oh -- did I mention that slackware is the most Unix like distro
> > available.
 There is a reason that hotmail is running on FreeBSD and NOT
> > Red Hat
>
>
> Who owns Hotmail?
>
> Who is the biggest opponent of the GPL?
>
> Who'd prefer not being caught dead running a GPL system, and look for ANY
> alternative if their own operating system wasn't scalable to the task,
> even
 if it wasn't technically the best choice?
> Remember, businesses make decisions for lots of reasons other than sheer
> technical merit. Often, political/perception issues count for more....
The FreeBSD decision was made in the years BEFORE MS bought them.  It's a 
legacy MS has tried - with mixed success - to replace with W2K/ASP.

I beleieve the original Hotmail engineers were inspired by the use of BSD at 
Yahoo!

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