Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:36:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Bill A. K." <billieakay@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition Message-ID: <20000522093603.B77130@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000b01bfc35d$c8c3c030$0200a8c0@bill> References: <000b01bfc35d$c8c3c030$0200a8c0@bill>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Sunday, 21 May 2000 at 15:50:14 -0400, Bill A. K. wrote: > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 > > Hello everyone, > I've had this petition up for a while, and I'm trying to get more traffic and names. I'm trying to get something to convince Microsoft to port Internet Explorer for UNIX to FreeBSD. > The URL for my site is http://www.iefreebsd.freeservers.com > If you would be interested in a small banner, etc. for your own web site, please let me know, and I'll see what I can do. I think this is a very bad idea. Look at your mail message for one good reason why: Microsoft software is just plain broken. You probably don't even realise that your message was written without line breaks. Isn't it much easier to read like this? > I've had this petition up for a while, and I'm trying to get more > traffic and names. I'm trying to get something to convince Microsoft > to port Internet Explorer for UNIX to FreeBSD. The URL for my site > is http://www.iefreebsd.freeservers.com If you would be interested > in a small banner, etc. for your own web site, please let me know, > and I'll see what I can do. In the FreeBSD project, we're trying to get away from Microsoft, not come closer to it. If there were a counter-petition to ask Microsoft *not* to port IE, I would sign it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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