From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 17: 6:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B6C37BA41 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 17:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA77213; Mon, 22 May 2000 09:36:03 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:36:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Bill A. K." Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition Message-ID: <20000522093603.B77130@freebie.lemis.com> References: <000b01bfc35d$c8c3c030$0200a8c0@bill> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <000b01bfc35d$c8c3c030$0200a8c0@bill> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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