From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 25 13:51:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.scana.com (falcon.scana.com [161.156.101.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1D037B4C5 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by falcon.scana.com; id QAA23341; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:51:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailexnet.scana.com(161.156.248.69) by falcon.scana.com via smap (V5.5) id xma023275; Wed, 25 Oct 00 16:51:07 -0400 Received: by mailexnet.scana.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:51:05 -0400 Message-ID: From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Cc: "'Zaitsau, Andrei'" , "'David Johnson'" , "'Victor R. Cardona'" Subject: RE: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:51:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Far be it for me to defend Microsoft, but I seriously doubt that they > actually held a gun to the head to Dell, Packard Bell, IBM, > Acer, et al, > forcing them to ship their products with Windows. It does no good > calling Microsoft evil when it's the computer manufacturer that sells > the "take it or leave it" systems. They held the proverbial gun to their head. Unless the hardware manufacturer sold windows with *every* PC they would either be prevented from selling windows at all, or would have to pay unreasonable prices. This is one of the items the justice department originally went after them for in 1995. ...Michael... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message