From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Nov 25 10:43:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BF537B401 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:43:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (ac17859.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF33943EAA for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:43:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H65006LQAO8UE@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:43:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:38:48 -0800 Received: from balderdash.acuson.com (dhcp-46-133.acuson.com [157.226.46.133]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id V00LP5Q0; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:40:50 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:43:21 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) In-reply-to: <014201c29296$f9cc4a20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> To: FreeBSD Advocacy Message-id: <200211251043.21811.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021121161453.GA69019_submonkey.net@ns.sol.net> <20021122234047.GB60785@wantadilla.lemis.com> <014201c29296$f9cc4a20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 22 November 2002 06:21 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I'd hardly expect to hear anything different on a FreeBSD advocacy list. > There are lots of people at Microsoft who say _exactly_ the same thing > about UNIX as a server ("it would take me several times as long to get > things done if I had to use UNIX" or "UNIX is a toy compared to Windows > 2000"). I've heard plenty of people argue that UNIX is hard to use. But I have *never* heard it called a "toy" in the last twenty years. Of course, I don't work at Microsoft. I have to live out in the real world where that phrase is never uttered. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message