Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:25:59 -0500 From: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal@tsgincorporated.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, <TM4525@aol.com>, <stefan@swebase.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows Message-ID: <055301c4bc4a$07dc5ae0$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEIMEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal@tsgincorporated.com>; <TM4525@aol.com>; <stefan@swebase.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:24 AM Subject: RE: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows I'll make this short, sweet, and to the point. The Human Race, is by nature a lazy race. We, as in, ALL humans, strive to make our life easier. I'm well aware of monopolies and their effect on us. I'm also aware of how technology has changed our lives. If you think that you, or I don't have it easy? Go check out the Amish. Ask them about why they don't have autos, or computers, electricity, running water, internal plumbing or any other item you and I take for granted on a day to day basis. Live for a year in the middle east in a tent, with none of those items and tell me that you'd not be thrilled to have a toilet to sit on again. As for your Milk monopoly, a few words, Pail, Bucket and grab an udder and "roll your own". Unless you own the source of a product, you can't monopolize it, or prevent others from undercutting you. Don't harp on me about the internet and it's creation and how or why it was designed. I know why it was designed as I was a part of the US Air Forces side of it's inception. It's initial civilian usage was designed to allow colleagues from the testing universities to share data quickly and efficiently. DNS was designed because a host file couldn't hold every host that used it. The US Military had an interest in it as a possible redundant network in the event that Autovon, or Autodin failed and wanted a non-centralized network that could still function in the event of catastrophic failure of their internal communications network. Bottom Line. We're lazy, we've always been lazy and damn it, we WILL always look for something easier, more convienient that can do more. So, to you, Windows is harder to administrate, to me Unix is harder to administrate. Who do you think's had to spend more time on the phone getting someone else to answer their questions and who's had to look it all up themself? I don't call MS for my issues. -- Micheal Patterson Senior Communications Systems Engineer 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
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