From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Dec 19 10:29:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB3A37B41B for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:29:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31369 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2001 18:29:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Dec 2001 18:29:47 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <006501c188b5$63f010e0$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:29:32 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Jeremiah Gowdy Subject: Re: Microsoft _still_ makes for a boring thread Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, Terry Lambert Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19-Dec-01 Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: >> John Baldwin wrote: >> > Agreed, this is freebsd-advocacy, not Terry vs. Anthony. >> >> FWIW, I agree, and will not respond to the Microsoft troll any >> more in -advocacy. > > Would that make you the FreeBSD troll, since you obviously initiated this > mini-flame war ? Actually, Anthony usually starts these flamewars. He's started about 3 or 4 on -chat in the past week or so. His primary assertion being that Unix or Unix-like systems are unsuitable on the desktop for anyone, and that everyone should switch to Windows for desktop machines. He does claim to run a FreeBSD server however, and says that Unix-like systems are ok for servers. However, he won't accept the fact that some people do indeed find Unix useful as a desktop as well. The biggest reason Terry is riled up is that Anthony doesn't play fair during arguments. He ignores any statements which point him out as being wrong, partially quotes messages so he can take parts out of context, contradicts himself, and always has to have the last word. Granted, the lovely flamefest should have stopped much earlier (as should the ones on -chat), but Anthony is the one being the Troll here. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message