From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 11 15:56:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D6D637B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:56:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5609218C5; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 18:56:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 18:56:20 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Lanny Baron Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: accessing portal site Message-ID: <20001111185620.C555@puck.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , Lanny Baron , FreeBSD Advocacy References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 01:19:03PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 01:19:03PM -0500, Lanny Baron wrote: > Our company, Freedom Technologies Corporation, only builds Intel Inside > and (not currently allowed by your gov't) Intel Outside Servers. By that I > mean we only sell/promote Intel Chassis, Intel serverboards, Intel Pentium > III Processors (no celerons). > > We only put on the servers sold, the OS called FreeBSD, which Micro$oft > uses to run HotMail.com and Yahoo! uses for its more than 1000+ web > servers. > > I kindly ask on behalf of the Unix community, that your corporation ceases > from forcing the use of Micro$oft products to get into some sites (the > portal for example). > > To backup what I have said about MS and Yahoo! please visit the following > URL: > > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/05/29/BU20648.DTL 1) Don't act on my behalf without my permission. 2) Don't quote incorrect statistics (hotmail.com runs on Win2K). 3) Don't quote outdated articles (May 29 is ~ 6 months ago). 4) Don't cc advocacy.. if you must send it to us, bcc or forward. 5) Don't use tactless words like "disgusting". Thanks. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message