Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:42:37 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: "Dave U. Random" <anonymous@anonymitaet-im-inter.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of? Message-ID: <0B9FF530-AAE8-4411-8B06-2AD5662CB803@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <d0d8129924f70fbd791ef9e3fb088e9b@anonymitaet-im-inter.net> References: <d0d8129924f70fbd791ef9e3fb088e9b@anonymitaet-im-inter.net>
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On 6 Jun 2012, at 21:52, Dave U. Random <anonymous@anonymitaet-im-inter.net>= wrote: > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: >=20 >> On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference: the >>> point is why should I have to pay anything to a third party in order to >>> run whatever OS I want on a piece of hardware I own? >=20 > It's time to dump the Intel/Microshaft mafia forever. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, > NetBSD, and even Linux have ports to many platforms. Why stay on Intel? It= 's > an overgrown ugly mess. >=20 > We need to stop buying Intel mafiaware with preinstalled Microshaft mafiwa= re > and run a free (or in the case of Linux "apparently free") OS on free > hardware. >=20 > There are increasing numbers of SBCs and plenty of used servers on > Ebay. They're all built better than commodity Intel mafiaware. Good > riddance! >=20 You have no idea what you're talking about. This kind of religious propaganda post is neither constructive nor helpful. I don't trust AMD with my servers' CPUs, not since many years ago when they h= ad all these overheating problems.=
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