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Date:      Tue, 22 Dec 1998 20:44:58 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Subject:   Re: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981222204458.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981221204651.00acf510@genesis.ispace.com>

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On 22-Dec-98 Drew Baxter wrote:
> --- My Rant:
> Hey wait a minute here.. I use Eudora.. While I can't stand Microsoft, I am
> required to exist in a Microsoft world..

No yer not, no-one of forcing ye *grin*
 
> If you can get 85+% of the software on the market to work on FreeBSD, and
> support my Voodoo2 card, I'll switch..

Well, ye might want to check the Quake II and 3Dfx thread/posts on
http://www.freebsdrocks.com

> People that sell out to Microsoft are the people that think nothing else
> exists.. I'm proud of the existance of my FreeBSD machine and the ones I
> manage..  Unfortunately in a school setting, we do 'whatever gets the job
> done'.  Some things I can't control.

Whatever gets the job done? Cross-platform: PDF, PS =)

Well, I do, unfortunately, know how ye feel... MS Marketing sucks because it's
damn good...

> Also I've been using Eudora since my Mac days before Qualcomm ate it up,
> and I like it :)

And from 3 -> 4 it remained as it were, incorporating MS bloatware in the form of
Internet Explorer 4 to be able to view those eternally damned HTML messages.

---
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven            Life is the only Pain 
asmodai(at)wxs.nl                              we endeavour...
Network/Security Specialist      <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
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