Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 07:52:51 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does FreeBSD make a difference in a government context ? Message-ID: <15273.59043.419743.938164@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <126529085@toto.iv>
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Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> types: > On Wednesday 19 September 2001 21:01, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > > Sorry, I just got word from my boss that he INSISTED that I buy a > > copy of Windows XP professional and use it on my home box instead > > of FreeBSD. I'm still a little riled. > Wow. Anyone tried to tell me what I _had_ to run on my personal home PC > and I think I'd laugh myself silly! If I paid the $$ for the machine, it's running > FreeBSD. Yup. I had a client ask when I was going to join the 20th century so he could send me MS proprietary cruft. I told him to send me a PC with what he wanted me to have installed on it, and expect to pay for my time moving things back and forth. He started sending stuff in HTML. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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