From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 02:21:02 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A02A1065672 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 02:21:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from "") Received: from remailer.privacy.at (remailer.privacy.at [212.124.141.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D74CF8FC14 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 02:21:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by remailer.privacy.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78CB57FF08 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 04:01:42 +0200 (CEST) From: "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address above. It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software. Please report problems or inappropriate use to the remailer administrator at . To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <0B9FF530-AAE8-4411-8B06-2AD5662CB803@my.gd> Message-ID: <27a296669e8751b8ba2af6a3c14a3e9b@remailer.privacy.at> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 04:01:42 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of? 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: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:21:02 -0000 Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > On 6 Jun 2012, at 21:52, Dave U. Random wrote: > > > Polytropon wrote: > > > >> 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? > > > > 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. > > > > We need to stop buying Intel mafiaware with preinstalled Microshaft mafiware > > and run a free (or in the case of Linux "apparently free") OS on free > > hardware. > > > > There are increasing numbers of SBCs and plenty of used servers on > > Ebay. They're all built better than commodity Intel mafiaware. Good > > riddance! > > > > You have no idea what you're talking about. I have no idea what you're talking about. Does that count? > This kind of religious propaganda post is neither constructive nor > helpful. But your expansive and well-reasoned "rebuttal" is? Is mafiaware a religious issue? I thought it was common sense. Thanks for your half-assed attempt to marginalize it. I don't think you were successful. If at first... > I don't trust AMD with my servers' CPUs, not since many years ago when > they had all these overheating problems. I don't really care about that. But I'm sure you feel better after getting it off your chest. Still, that doesn't have to do with two major corporations conspiring to butt-fuck the consumer. At most it involved one company. So, for now, this is more important than what you wanted to talk about.