From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 8:38:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B758B37BC6A for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:38:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.47.188.88] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ha163079 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:38:20 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA25066; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:36:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: "Kevin Oberman" Subject: Re: [Complete FreeBSD book - any cooments?] Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:31:02 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: FreeBSD Questions References: <200003131607.IAA07279@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <200003131607.IAA07279@ptavv.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00031311362803.24959@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: Walter Brameld > > Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:55:40 -0500 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Just please please do not buy it at amazon.com. > > Why not? > > (Is your objection related to Amazon in general or something > specifically related to FreeBSD?) > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer I have absolutely no problem with either FreeBSD (After all it's what I'm using) or the book. My problem is with amazon.com, their inappropriate patent on the One-Click ordering system and the management philosophy that would result in same. If you would like further information on thsi issue, see: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html#whyBoycott A running dialog between Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly books and Jeff Bezos, CEO of amazon.com may be found at http://www.oreilly.com -- Walter Brameld Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? Walter: Where the hell am I? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message