From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Aug 11 12:17:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from postal.linkfast.net (postal.linkfast.net [208.160.105.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960F137B9A6 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:17:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grasshacker@linkfast.net) Received: by postal.linkfast.net (Postfix, from userid 103) id 5FF859B30; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:17:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:17:53 -0500 From: GH To: "Person, Roderick" Cc: 'James Howard' , John , Haikal Saadh , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A depressing thought.. Message-ID: <20000811141753.A18655@linkfast.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from personrp@ccbh.com on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:50:44AM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Even better, a perfect explanation for the Microsoft ruling of the world: ``With so many good word processors, it's just not worth it.'' --with regard to learning how to spell correctly. --spewed from the mind and vocals of a 25-year-old male. I regularly give up on making the world a better place. gh On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 08:50:44AM -0400, some silly person named Person, Roderick blurbed out > My favorite told to me by a co-worker, after I told him I only use NT and M$ > stuff at work and since he hate NT and M$ why does he use it at home. > > "Everybody else uses it, so I do too." > > I seem to think, if you have this attitude among people with technical > knowledge that M$ will remain the dominate OS dispute the fact that it > sucks. > > Roderick P. Person > Programmer II > Crystal Administrator > (412)454-2616 > personrp@ccbh.com > > "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, > would it?" > Albert Einstein > > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Howard [mailto:howardjp@glue.umd.edu] > Sent: July 26, 2000 10:06 PM > To: John > Cc: Haikal Saadh; advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: A depressing thought.. > > > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, John wrote: > > > "Go with NT. After all, it's a Bill Gates World." > > I once heard in a staff meeting, "Microsoft is the world," as the argument > for replacing tried and true OpenVMS systems with WinNT. > > Oh well. > > J~ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message