From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 25 13:59:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.rdc1.il.home.com (mail1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05C837B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marx.elvisinthemorning.net ([24.17.229.11]) by mail1.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001025205910.XRIR20067.mail1.rdc1.il.home.com@marx.elvisinthemorning.net>; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:59:10 -0700 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.elvisinthemorning.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9PKxbS29794; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:59:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from vcardona) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:59:37 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: David Johnson Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD Message-ID: <20001025155937.A29757@home.com> References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CCD@exchange.panasonicfa.com> <20001025151928.A29563@home.com> <39F7442A.78B679C5@acuson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39F7442A.78B679C5@acuson.com>; from djohnson@acuson.com on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:35:54PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:35:54PM -0700, David Johnson wrote: > "Victor R. Cardona" wrote: > > > > Doug, I would not aim Microsoft also. This is business. And nothing evil. > > > Personally I do not like Microsoft products, they are unstable. But no one > > > makes you to use them. Bill Gates did not come to people with automatic gun > > > and tell them: "Hey Folk, buy Microsoft Products, or I will shoot you !". > > > It's people who made Microsoft gigantic corporation. No one makes you to buy > > > products, if you don't like it- do not buy it and do not use it. Easy as > > > 1,2,3. > > > > Try buying a new computer without Windows. Granted it is a lot easier > > now then it once was, but still most off the shelf PCs come with > > Microsoft software. > > Far be it for me to defend Microsoft, but I seriously doubt that they > actually held a gun to the head to Dell, Packard Bell, IBM, Acer, et al, > forcing them to ship their products with Windows. It does no good > calling Microsoft evil when it's the computer manufacturer that sells > the "take it or leave it" systems. I am sure no guns were involved, but you have to admit that it is a very unusual contract. I don't see Dell et al asking for such a thing either. However, I could be wrong. Victor Cardona To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message