From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 12:27:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E7E337B417 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 12:27:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) id fBRKR9t17197; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:27:09 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200112272027.fBRKR9t17197@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Teaching parents UNIX To: anthony@freebie.atkielski.com (Anthony Atkielski) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:27:08 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <011101c18f12$f31aaec0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> from "Anthony Atkielski" at Dec 27, 2001 09:13:28 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Marco writes: > > > For the same reason people drive cars with > > a manual transmission instead of an automatic > > transmission. > > It's fine if you wish to drive a car with a manual transmission yourself. > However, giving a car with a manual transmission to someone else just > because _you_ happen to like manual transmissions makes no sense at all. Maybe he can't afford to buy an extra car just to have one to loan to his mother. Maybe his mother appreciates better control and efficiency as much as he does. Maybe his mother is bored with just playing solitaire and landmine all the time. Jeeze, don't start another of those useless and interminably boring contests of juvenile word slicing about using Win or BSD again. We just got rid of one of those. ////jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message