From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jun 30 1:33:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F48537B410 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 01:33:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a155.otenet.gr [212.205.215.155]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5U8XnF20691; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:33:50 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f5U8Has27016; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:17:36 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:17:35 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lets not bash Windows or M$ at every opportunity {was: FreeBSD and Microsoft} Message-ID: <20010630111735.B26839@hades.hell.gr> References: <20010629230718.C3383@widomaker.com> <000f01c10126$10525220$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000f01c10126$10525220$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:32:33PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html 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 On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:32:33PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > It seems to me that so far the only people that have ever built a > sustainable business model with multimedia are the porno sites. > Perhaps that is who is really secretly funding all of the > development on the new streaming video formats because there's > nobody else in the business that is making any money doing it. Heh. I seem to recall at least once a message from Jordan that stated more or less the same thing. A quick search in the archives, and I failed to find it right now, but I think I can't agree more :) -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message