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>
> <opinion>
> But why are we interested in "converting" people?  That borders on
> religious, which an operating system should not be.

exactly.

it's a good idea to tell people about trying FreeBSD if they are already 
using some flavor of unix.

One can be "converted" from Solaris to FreeBSD, from NetBSD to OpenBSD, 
and (sometimes) from linux to FreeBSD.

But not from Windows.