From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 10:49:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB4537B646 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 10:49:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29837; Thu, 25 May 2000 10:49:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id KAA04562; Thu, 25 May 2000 10:49:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:49:27 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Brennan W Stehling Cc: Generic Player , Mark Ovens , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition Message-ID: <20000525104927.C4538@athena.sea.tera.com> References: <000901bfc4f7$21df1ee0$0100a8c0@x> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: ; from Brennan W Stehling on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 09:10:51AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 09:10:51AM -0500, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > I use MacOS and FreeBSD as an alternative to Windows and Microsoft > software because I prefer it. I also do it to avoid MS software because I > do not wnat to support that company in any way. > > Conversely, I purchase (not pirate) copies of MacOS to support Apple. I > also purchase FreeBSD products from cdrom.com and clothing from > copyleft.net. It is all about voting with my dollar bill. > > The reason MS stays on top is that people keep on buying and using their > software. The create proprietary formats and people call them the > standards (Excel for spreadsheets and Word for word processing). With > that in place it is hard to alternatives to gain ground unless there is an > element which simply does not use MS software and uses alternatives like > Star Office, Gnome or KDE applications. > [[ ... ]] > > Sure the "MS Sux" attitude is childish, but if these people presented > themselves in a better way, perhaps you would agree with them. > > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin > projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > I believe this says it as succiently as possible! Some of you may have read about my Unix-bigotry in DaemonNews years ago. The main reason to support this paradigm is simply becausee of its superiority; another reason is to knock M$oft down a few notches. Supporting the Freenix movement by shelling out a few dollars/year for CD's is a start; volunteering your time and labor is that much better; buying CD's and volunteering is better still. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message