From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 25 15:44:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from stud.alakhawayn.ma (stud.alakhawayn.ma [193.194.63.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C79937B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:44:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (961BE653994@localhost) by stud.alakhawayn.ma (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA21902; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:37:46 GMT Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:37:45 +0000 (GMT) From: ALAOUI EL HASSANI ALI <961BE653994@stud.alakhawayn.ma> To: Keith Davey Cc: David Johnson , "Victor R. Cardona" , "Zaitsau, Andrei" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I agree with you Keith. On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Keith Davey wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, David Johnson wrote: > > > "Victor R. Cardona" wrote: > > > > > > Doug, I would not aim Microsoft also. This is business. And nothing evil. > > > > Personally I do not like Microsoft products, they are unstable. But no one > > > > makes you to use them. Bill Gates did not come to people with automatic gun > > > > and tell them: "Hey Folk, buy Microsoft Products, or I will shoot you !". > > > > It's people who made Microsoft gigantic corporation. No one makes you to buy > > > > products, if you don't like it- do not buy it and do not use it. Easy as > > > > 1,2,3. > > > > > > Try buying a new computer without Windows. Granted it is a lot easier > > > now then it once was, but still most off the shelf PCs come with > > > Microsoft software. > > > > Far be it for me to defend Microsoft, but I seriously doubt that they > > actually held a gun to the head to Dell, Packard Bell, IBM, Acer, et al, > > forcing them to ship their products with Windows. It does no good > > calling Microsoft evil when it's the computer manufacturer that sells > > the "take it or leave it" systems. > > > > David > > > > That is not actualy acurate. No I doubt a gun, but a price tag is almost > as bad. It was (still is) common practice for MS to offer a busness a > LARGE discount on the OEM licence for Windows to OEMs that agreed to: > > 1. Ship Windows preinstalled > 2. Do not ship any systems with any other OS (originaly this was to > squash OS/2) > > In an industry where a couple hundred dollers makes all the diffents in > making a sale, this method works quite well. > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message