Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 04:07:24 GMT From: Jamie Jones <jamie@dyslexicfish.com> To: anthony@freebie.atkielski.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <200211230407.gAN47Orr028025@catflap.bishopston.net> In-Reply-To: <019201c292a1$f4ee67d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Since absolute statements are the exception rather than the rule (and I > normally qualify them as such when making them, personally), "usually" can > be assumed. Errrm Ok. > It's not extreme at all. What is extreme is tossing out or avoiding working > solutions in order to yield to an emotional attachment to some piece of > software. I see it all the time, with people trying to do unreasonable > things with Windows, UNIX, or the Mac (or any number of other software As with most of your original post, I don't disagree with this statement. But now it's gone 4.00am, this is turning into a religious war now, and anyway you'll find that I'm not the zeolot you may perceive me as ! My point was simply that it's not "absurd" to use FreeBSD on the desktop. It's certainly the best choice for me and a number of others, if not for the populace, but that's another argument altogether.. That's really the only thing I wanted to pick up on. Cheers, Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200211230407.gAN47Orr028025>