From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 20:26: 0 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 20:25:58 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA3FF37B400 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:25:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2616 invoked by uid 100); 20 Dec 2000 04:25:56 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14912.13524.425847.855032@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:25:56 -0600 (CST) To: "Debbie Machado" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: OT: (Re: Why do you support Yahoo!) In-Reply-To: <121895762@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Debbie Machado types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please don't do this to the questions@freebsd.org list. Send plain text instead. > I noticed Yahoo has you listed as one of their business supporters. I > stopped using Yahoo aggressively after I realized they support all religions > except Christianity. Just try to find a Christmas card about Christ amongst > all the other religious cards they freely give users access to on their main > page for "Christmas". Since Yahoo refuses to acknowledge Christmas as an > American Religious Holiday, like the other ones they list, I figured this > year I would sent out a Christmas card from their service to all my family, > friends, business associates, clients, & online news media simply explaining > what I've observed and how it makes me feel. I also will list all the > sponsors, advertisers, & partners as supporters. You don't need to respond > to me. YOU NEED TO REACT TO THEM. In Him -Debbie First, to answer the question - to my knowledge, FreeBSD doesn't support Yahoo. Yahoo runs their business on FreeBSD software, but that's not something we have much to say about - other than being justifiably proud of providing the software foundation for one of the busiest sites on the web. As for your complaint about them - it seems to be false. On the e-greetings page, I see a short list of religious holidays, including Christmas (the Christian holiday of the season). Following that link, I find a listing for "religious" Christmas cards, among others kinds that people celebrating Christmas are liable to want. Following that link, I find two pages or twenty-two cards of a noticeably Christian nature. Compare that to the link for Winter Solstice, which takes you to the one and only card offered for that holiday. If I thought boycotting a company for such reasons was rational behavior, I'd say my doing so was more justified than your doing so. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message