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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (62751)	11/7/2001 8:03:51 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"LOL! How are businesses supposed to take this seriously? It looks like a middle-schooler's 6th grade project." Hmm, you have a point. If the Linux sites looked more professional, Linux might have more than 25% of the server market...

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (62751)	11/7/2001 10:18:54 PM
From: Charles Gryba	Respond to of 275872

Wanna, True. Constantine

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (62751)	11/7/2001 10:32:13 PM
From: Eric K.	Respond to of 275872

Re: How are businesses supposed to take this seriously? It looks like a middle-schooler's 6th grade project. I don't think that site is designed for marketing to businesses, but for encouraging development effort. It's a very different target demographic. The description on the x86-64 web page is as follows: "This site, supported by AMD, is dedicated to porting open source software, including GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD, to AMD's new x86-64™ architecture." Besides, look how cute that devil actually is: freebsd.org -Eric