From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Nov 25 20:47:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA23801 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:47:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from calvin.saturn-tech.com (calvin.saturn-tech.com [207.229.19.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA23789; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:47:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drussell@saturn-tech.com) Received: from localhost (drussell@localhost) by calvin.saturn-tech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA23830; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:46:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from drussell@saturn-tech.com) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:46:23 -0700 (MST) From: Doug Russell To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tell Micro$oft what you think In-Reply-To: <199811221309.FAA07281@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > Charlie Schloemer wrote: > > as users of FreeBSD, we should be deeply grateful to these > hardware companies....we get all the improvement without > suffering any of the MS induced sludge-ware. I'm not so sure about that... Think of the hardware we might be using today if it weren't for MS domination? The last several generations of hardware have been built around running windows. AMD's K6es say "Windows Compatible" on the top, etc.... There's definetly two sides to this argument, and I agree with parts of both. :) You can't try to figure how things would be if they were different. :) Later...... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message