Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:09:23 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and hardware?? Message-ID: <20081118200923.GC5226@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20081118202205.W85658@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <7f8a05a80811171609h2f5742cfo2ae003415a99e45f@mail.gmail.com> <20081118121634.S84157@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081118123147.GA96005@ei.bzerk.org> <94136a2c0811180444n51cae14bg70654bc7b93445f8@mail.gmail.com> <20081118141648.M84450@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081118160808.GC28439@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20081118202205.W85658@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:22:56PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >Time to forget this. It is a semantic and religious battle > >playing hair splitting games with words. It is not a MS clone > >but it is an MS replacement. If you overwrite your MS-Win with > >FreeBSD, it completely replaces it. > > and you get something completely different. FORTUNATELY different. That doesn't change the fact that it *replaced* MS Windows. > > but - if millions of now-windows users starts switching to FreeBSD, it > will quickly become more and more similar. as linux did. Correlation does not imply causation -- just as repeating something many times doesn't make it true. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] O'Rourke's Circumcision Precept: You can take 10 percent off the top of anything. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkjIPMACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKW7SgCbBjDwlC9hP7GsxI1UoOPz+5au 3koAnj6+AYS+sX5me5E0UztmEcsMPcLg =bAZ+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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