From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Dec 19 10:35:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sherline.net (sherline.net [216.203.226.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0ACFF37B43C for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:34:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 99859 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2001 18:34:45 -0000 Received: from cx443070-a.vista1.sdca.home.com (HELO cptnhosedonkey) (24.4.93.90) by sherline.net with SMTP; 19 Dec 2001 18:34:45 -0000 Message-ID: <000a01c188bb$e9fe65f0$0a00a8c0@cptnhosedonkey> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "John Baldwin" Cc: , "Terry Lambert" References: Subject: Re: Microsoft _still_ makes for a boring thread Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:35:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 > 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. Well then, I'll conceed most of my points to a more general statement, rather than directly at Terry, however, it did seem he was being a little petty, and trying to use someone's Microsoft-advocacy to negate their point of view. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message