From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 10 16:17:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A164A106566C for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:17:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eam1edward@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com (mail-pb0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 721D48FC0C for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:17:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbro2 with SMTP id ro2so4767223pbb.13 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:17:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0XXGWz+LveSF2P0y2r0z8Ut5EkXoP7LFIKkdTmUpDRQ=; b=QLKUgq9rt7Iikzhn3ih3qu83KwFJH3wz/l3XacYAZVCkA/j9eKGjV2u9bT5644+WIv f8U9utez8Bn+S8B6EDmhybatSc4xLijhJmDbSa4K3J6xHKA4ZunzFvB8tBTWBdP2fCZN syV1zU3vyveKmxR6bcC+OJmVR92UlTvVjibwMmXkLNgQt3hkzJEzY/dQRkQb7wGvHear 9Bt9OdjDDmDLIfCGWBX6DH2n9G3ydWjqseA+R0nZ8oQ9LZpK3XZ8jO/hAAsEXxtQE5bw 9aPDZRzKWog+BmmHvKFAj+XfJS6x/vvUi/J/xWngsqB9djtSTSPgQNF9jrDrnioHFjCo gcuw== Received: by 10.68.223.138 with SMTP id qu10mr17726210pbc.50.1339345067906; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:17:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([174.134.109.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id pg1sm15270731pbb.41.2012.06.10.09.17.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:17:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FD4C9C7.7070206@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:22:31 -0700 From: Edward M User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:17:48 -0000 On 06/10/2012 08:09 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote: > This is really missing the point. The issue is not open source > vs. proprietary although many people seem to try to steer everything into > that meaningless conflict. > > The point is the WinTel Mafia's many years of collusion and screwing over > the customer. Try to buy a commodity PC in any major store and it will come > with Windows, and you have to pay for it. Now the WinTel Mafia got many > companies onboard with their system to lock you out from the box you just > bought. Bad enough it comes with Windows and you had to pay for it, and you > don't even get an install disk. But the WinTel Mafia adds insult to injury > and stops you from installing whatever software you want on it. > > What does this have to do with OSS v. proprietary source? Nothing! > > It is just about the WinTel Mafia's illegal, abuse trade practices. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Need to have that congitiive distortion ckecked out because it makes it difficult to bring a logical conclusion, and creates an ill perspective on reality and keeps the person with a child like mentality; which makes the person to excerise worlds like wintel mafia,etc.