From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jun 29 8:19:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from exchange.nils.lib.il.us (134.10.63.207.lth2.k12.il.us [207.63.10.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3B637B403 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nathanw@nils.lib.il.us) Received: by EXCHANGE with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:22:21 -0500 Message-ID: <94B701C29FC0D411B22100508BAF32AA03B96F@EXCHANGE> From: Nathan Williams To: Technical Information , FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: RE: FreeBSD and Microsoft Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:22:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 Yes, but the notion of peer pressure is the same on both fronts. nathan -----Original Message----- From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:tedm@toybox.placo.com] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 4:09 AM To: Technical Information; FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: RE: FreeBSD and Microsoft >-----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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message