From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 14 17:22:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA04176 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 17:22:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cia.net.au (mail.cia.net.au [203.17.36.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA04078 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 17:21:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alastair@cia.com.au) Received: from clarence.progmatics.com.au ([203.28.49.193]) by cia.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA19948 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:21:12 +1000 Received: from alastair (192.168.0.67) by clarence.progmatics.com.au (Worldmail 1.3.167); 15 Jun 1998 10:21:08 +1000 Message-ID: <3580BA4900000019@clarence.progmatics.com.au> (added by clarence.progmatics.com.au) X-Sender: alastair@mail.cia.com.au (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:21:04 +1000 To: Brett Glass From: Alastair Rankine Subject: Re: Draft of Nader letter Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806150000.SAA04235@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:00 PM 14/06/98 -0600, you wrote: >James Love, assistant to Ralph Nader, has published a draft of a letter to >be sent to the Justice Department regarding alternatives to Microsoft OSes. >The letter shows a heavy bias toward Linux and makes some incorrect >statements about FreeBSD. We should send feedback urging them to be less >Linux-centric, mention the other *BSDs, correct the information on FreeBSD, >and include commercial OSes (such as BSDI, QNX, BeOS, etc.) as well as just >the free ones as alternatives to Microsoft's products. The draft can be >found at > >http://www.essential.org/antitrust/ms/jkjun151998.html I couldn't see any factual errors regarding FreeBSD, nor could I see a bias towards Linux. Maybe it has been updated already? -- [ Alastair Rankine ] [ mailto:alastair@cia.com.au ] [ http://www.cia.com.au/alastair ] [ pgp5 64E4 B67C D2B7 EEC4 63C9 AA74 F63A 9AD9 E44B 21C7 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message