Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 19646 invoked by uid 6000); 1 Jul 1999 09:20:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 19504 invoked from network); 1 Jul 1999 09:20:27 -0000 Received: from smtp4.mindspring.com (207.69.200.64) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 1 Jul 1999 09:20:27 -0000 Received: from [192.168.200.20] (user-38lc8lh.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.34.177]) by smtp4.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA07792; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 05:20:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907010920.FAA07792@smtp4.mindspring.com> Subject: Re: MS FUD Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 05:20:32 -0400 x-sender: vinceb@pop.mindspring.com x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, January 22, 1998 From: Vince Bonfanti To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org Status: O On 7/1/99 3:18 AM, Brian Schau wrote: > >> And then they fight you ... >> >> Dont worry , MS has won round 1 and scored a little >> FUD to scatter around , but the war is not over yet ... > >Nope. I'd just like to see a test based on real-time situations. I >mean, how many ISP's have 100Mbit lines to the world? And how many >ISP's have several 100Mbit lines to the world? > Hmm...maybe the "real world" for the open source community is mostly ISPs and universities, while the "real world" for Microsoft is mostly Fortune 500 companies (who generally *do* have 100Mbit internal networks)...and maybe these two "real worlds" don't really intersect all that much...so maybe much of the "open source-versus-Microsoft" conflict rhetoric is only so much hot air generated by certain individuals, companies, and the press in pursuit of their own private agendas...and maybe the open source community and Microsoft (and other "closed source" companies) can actually live together side-by-side in harmony, each in their own "real world"... ...just a thought. Vince