Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 04:01:42 +0200 (CEST) From: "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of? Message-ID: <27a296669e8751b8ba2af6a3c14a3e9b@remailer.privacy.at> In-Reply-To: <0B9FF530-AAE8-4411-8B06-2AD5662CB803@my.gd>
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Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> wrote: > > On 6 Jun 2012, at 21:52, Dave U. Random <anonymous@anonymitaet-im-inter.net> wrote: > > > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> 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.
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