From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jun 29 2: 8:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 825C637B408 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 02:08:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f5T98al16615; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 02:08:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Technical Information" , "FreeBSD Advocacy" Subject: RE: FreeBSD and Microsoft Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 02:08:35 -0700 Message-ID: <001601c1007b$13969e60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010628152216.017e6008@threespace.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal 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 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Technical >Information >Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:24 PM >To: FreeBSD Advocacy >Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Microsoft > > >At 04:20 AM 6/28/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >>I have to wonder, why the heck are Microsoft doing this? If more and >>more people start to learn that Linux isn't the only MS-alternative >>out there, there's another OS with friendlier licensing which does >>everything linux can (including running linux binaries like >>StarOffice) and is used by Microsoft itself (and on doing some >>research, they'll also learn that the same OS is used by Apple), >>exactly how does that help Microsoft? >> >>It's certainly good for FreeBSD; it's not necessarily bad for linux >>(whose users don't really care about Microsoft donations); but I don't >>see how it will be good for Microsoft. >> >>R > >Why does the drug dealer give you the first couple of hits of cocaine for >free? Not only does it engender some good will in the beginning, but once >you're hooked, they're in a position where they get to dictate the >terms of >the arrangement absolutely. > People that get hooked (addicted) to drugs can't get off of them even if they want to. But software is a different matter - nobody is holding a gun to their heads and telling them that they _have_ to keep using Microsoft software. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message