Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 06:53:07 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley Message-ID: <199805041153.GAA07744@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Phillip Salzman <advocacy@saten.dyn.ml.org> of "Mon, 04 May 1998 01:03:57 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504010042.465A-100000@saten.dyn.ml.org>
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Phillip Salzman writes: > > > > Actually, it would be nice if M$ would do that, perhaps it would greatly > > reduce the bugcount in their software and make it more useable. :-) > > -- > > Jonathan > > > That would be a cool thing for M$ to do, that way some people would > find out M$ 'borrowed' it from FreeBSD... and the word would spread > until everyone knows that M$ is full of annoying worms. Those people > would then goto ftp.freebsd.org and download the installation diskette > and send back their M$ purchase. > > This would cause M$ to lose market share, and money.. forcing them > to stop selling OS's, and die. I've been thinking that considering Netscape's release of their browser source code that maybe it would be a good idea for IBM to do the same with OS/2. IBM can't be collecting very much money selling OS/2. Well, at least not much in IBM scale. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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