From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 3:57:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7B037B405 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 03:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15eaN0-0000jG-00; Wed, 05 Sep 2001 10:57:22 +0000 Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 06F83B674; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:56:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:56:29 +0200 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Bas Willems Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: better free then to become a slave.. Message-ID: <20010905125629.B4435@raggedclown.net> References: <01090512223400.01794@gsf65.gdf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <01090512223400.01794@gsf65.gdf.com>; from next@euronet.nl on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:22:34PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:22:34PM +0200, Bas Willems wrote: > > > Dear Sirs, Madams, > > > I am a FreeBSD user of the first hour... > I like FreeBSD and use it on my servers at home and on my work. > > But since Linux became a bigger player i get the feeling that FreeBSD > developers and its community are becoming more dirtier and unreliable > every day. Name names..name issues... > The issue's about FreeBSD is better then LInux or Microsoft to bring out its > C# to FreeBSD etc.etc. make me worry a lot. > As intrests in FreeBSD tent to grow so is the FreeBSD developers and > community hunger to power and money. > Oh yes, they want to take over the world...I expect they are all rich and have tea with Billy on a regular basis.. > Is FreeBSD becoming a redmond slave? > Is FreeBSD so arrogant that its loosing its grip on its users? In a very real sense FreeBSD IS it's users... > > I would like to annouce to you that i will drop FreeBSD (i alway bought the > software to support development) and will switch to Linux and OpenBSD. > > Rather be Free then to be a become a redmond slave... > > Bas Bas .. you made my day. I have read some rubbish in my life but this takes the biscuit...(koekje). I suggest this is posted on the web site...with a health warning... "FreeBSD can cause irrational behaviour" ?? Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message