From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 20:09:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499F41065673 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:09:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-04.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-04.bluehost.com [69.89.21.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1189B8FC1B for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:09:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 10384 invoked by uid 0); 18 Nov 2008 20:09:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 18 Nov 2008 20:09:13 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=hbL8NF0+TZTclCE3KXc3dseAFp4DXoLgXRQZg4tkjOyhCbShyG3u+TRAWN2hVuZmcTajNMZfiL541ctOSSlVpm2LnXh6CEOB6ifSy8F0HfwEdzQA6y40aceNg1ontzu2; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L2Wsq-0001eq-P4 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:09:12 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:09:24 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:09:23 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081118200923.GC5226@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081118202205.W85658@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: FreeBSD and hardware?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:09:15 -0000 --ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > and you get something completely different. FORTUNATELY different. That doesn't change the fact that it *replaced* MS Windows. >=20 > but - if millions of now-windows users starts switching to FreeBSD, it=20 > 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. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] O'Rourke's Circumcision Precept: You can take 10 percent off the top of anything. --ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkjIPMACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKW7SgCbBjDwlC9hP7GsxI1UoOPz+5au 3koAnj6+AYS+sX5me5E0UztmEcsMPcLg =bAZ+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ--