From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Dec 20 0:37:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sherline.net (sherline.net [216.203.226.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CF4437B419 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:37:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2532 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2001 08:37:48 -0000 Received: from cx443070-a.vista1.sdca.home.com (HELO cptnhosedonkey) (24.4.93.90) by sherline.net with SMTP; 20 Dec 2001 08:37:48 -0000 Message-ID: <000901c18931$b11daf40$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Gilbert Gong" , "Terry Lambert" , "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: "Andrew C. Hornback" , References: <003701c18819$a9941a20$6600000a@ach.domain> <3C1FF8DA.2DBC501C@mindspring.com> <013b01c18844$b2ff8b50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C202951.D39F0144@mindspring.com> <005201c188b4$9bd4cd30$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey> <013b01c188f1$b3788340$1400a8c0@blah.com> Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy? Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:49:40 -0800 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 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 > Hm, I think one of the big problems here is that Anthony keeps stating that > Unix has no place in the desktop. That is fine as an opinion, I suppose, > but not very FreeBSD-advocating. I would argue that Unix has a potential > place in the desktop. In fact, we have to remember that the biggest Unix > desktop vendor, Apple (via OS X), built their kernel on a FreeBSD code base. > To bash Unix on the desktop is to bash OS X, which is to indirectly bash > FreeBSD (and all other BSDs, as well as all Unixes). I disagree completely. FreeBSD is not a desktop. If progress is to be made in the desktop market it shall be made by XFree86, Gnome, and KDE. Stating that FreeBSD has no place on the desktop isn't slamming FreeBSD, since FreeBSD is first and foremost a server operating system. To say that Unix has no place on the desktop is a completely valid opinion, and does not detract from FreeBSD, ***until such time as FreeBSD claims to be a desktop OS*** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message