From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 9:10:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB4A37B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cx443070b ([24.0.36.170]) by femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001026161007.WHJH2380.femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com@cx443070b>; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:10:07 -0700 Message-ID: <000f01c03f67$8b2e90c0$aa240018@cx443070b> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Victor R. Cardona" , "Zaitsau, Andrei" Cc: References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CE2@exchange.panasonicfa.com> <20001025200133.A30303@home.com> Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:12:30 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:52:06PM -0500, Zaitsau, Andrei wrote: > > Okay.. I hate doing this again. > > But what makes the Computer manufacturers not to ship computers with > > preinstalled FreeBSD on it, it has no licenses, it's free, it's very robust > > and reliable OS. They don't have to waste money on commercial OS then... > > One more time, people won't buy those computers then, because FreeBSD will > > be too complicated to them. > > UNIX is far too complicated for the average user who just wants to surf > the Web and write am occasional letter. However, that is not the only > issue here. Microsoft has engaged in questionable, if not illegal > practices in order to gain and maintain their monopoly on the desktop. > Microsoft also tries to intimidate hardware vendors by hinting that > computer vendors and manufacturers could be liable for somehow abetting > software piracy if they sell a computer without an OS. Since most > computer makers already have contracts with MS, guess what OS they are > going to install. > > Victor Cardona Yeah, but those OEMs still ship f'ing RedHat Linux systems. No reason why they couldn't offer FreeBSD as well. There are only a few things that are keeping FreeBSD from launching fully mainstream and getting the application and device driver support it needs, and OEM support is one of them. A native version of Oracle wouldn't hurt either :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message