From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Apr 26 06:32:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA29524 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 06:26:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server4.mpcbbs.com.br (server4.mpc.com.br [200.246.0.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA28713 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 06:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from capriotti@geocities.com) Received: from hot_nt (node28.mpc.com.br [200.246.0.28]) by server4.mpcbbs.com.br (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id KAA20895; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 10:15:43 -0300 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19691231210000.00ba8750@pop.mpc.com.br> X-Sender: capriotti@pop.mpc.com.br X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 10:14:57 -0300 To: Rainer M Duffner , "Maximiliano A. Eschoyez" From: Capriotti Subject: Re: KDE Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hey, now I thin this one deserves a good position. >I wonder anyway; all these South-American countries that are cronically >'broke' would be 10000 times better served (pun intended) buy moving >large parts of their IT-infrastructure to FreeBSD/Linux. Technicaly, yes. > How can your >University afford all these NT/Win95 licenses, how can it afford the >24-months HW-upgrades ? Pretty simple. Mr. Gates offers NT-based stuff for free, sources included; All SW developed using those sources become MS's property. and about the HW upgrade, we simply don't upgrade. We run slow machines. Now, though you may say that the Latin-American countries are broken, there is always a way to buy new computer, specially when you want to build a new mentality, product or tendency. I mean that if the industry need some more ppl to work with NT, they just give NT and the needed HW for free to Universities. Pretty easy, isn't it ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message