From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 23 11:12:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA19788 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.gu.kiev.ua (news.gu.net [193.124.51.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA19467 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:11:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from creator.gu.kiev.ua (stesin@creator.gu.kiev.ua [193.124.51.73]) by whale.gu.kiev.ua (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA51524; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:01:18 +0300 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:01:19 +0300 (EET DST) From: Andrew Stesin X-Sender: stesin@creator.gu.kiev.ua To: Joe Greco cc: Bill Paul , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splash-page on bootup.. In-Reply-To: <199609231511.KAA15826@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: X-NCC-RegID: ua.gu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > This was my first reaction too.. however I will not state that the > Mac/Microsoft/Etc. ideas don't have some merit... OTOH, most people > who would get warm fuzzies from this sort of thing are the sort of > people who won't be using FreeBSD in the short term. The thigs are even worse. They are _looking_ at it while _you_ use it, and they make some decisions... Best, Andrew