From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Dec 24 3: 8:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E81137B401 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 03:08:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (f130.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.163.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C9243ED8 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 03:08:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crollins666@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 02:51:40 -0800 Received: from 216.19.22.118 by sea1fd.sea1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:51:40 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.19.22.118] From: "clayton rollins" To: a-chrisf@exchange.microsoft.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: MS and BSD partiality; was: MS panel applets Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:51:40 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Dec 2002 10:51:40.0781 (UTC) FILETIME=[70BEF1D0:01C2AB3A] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >"Chris Fox (Excell Data Corporation)" >wrote: > > > >Really, guys, I didn't sign up for these lists to read most of that >slashdot MS-bashing. Yeah I work here, sue me, but I really like BSD >and I would rather learn about it without hearing about how much people >hate Windows. Give it a rest, and help me become a good BSD citizen, >OK? Chris, I understand if you've taken some comments, and I can understand if you're quick to react as a result of that. But, I don't think anyone here is "MS-bashing." Of the few negative comments, none have had anything to do directly with whether or not windows is a good OS. (and, certainly none were meant as an attack against you.) The only thing that was said that borders on that was that NTFS is hard to recover in the event of a system crash. (I think even Gates would have to agree on that one...) On a serious note, though, I was afraid to ask any questions during my early learning, because I saw so many comments like this and heard so many people whine about how they just got told to rtfm. In my experience, the BSD people have never given me this sort of treatment (even when I've deserved it). The only reason I ever found out this was the case was because I subscribed to these lists and found out for myself. Bottom line, don't take it to heart if someone says "MS is crap." (You didn't write the whole thing, did you?) After all, these are BSD lists, and you'd expect to find some people with very deep attachment to unix and not MS. When you reply like this, it only adds to the problem by making these rivalries seem bigger than they are. (The best thing you could probably do is to ignore immature comments like that, anyways.) Peace, Clayton PS. just because someone has a handle at /. doesn't make their opinion right...(or important for that matter.) _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_smartspamprotection_3mf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message