From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 15 19:37:12 1999 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21356 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:37:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12801; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:36:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199902160336.TAA12801@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft refunds (was: The Great Linux Event !) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:59:00 +1030." <19990216135900.A463@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:36:57 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Greg! When I read the news article I said : "Ouch -- Microsoft f** up " It is almost as they want to be sue to prove I guess that Linux is a viable option --- very weird and it should be very interesting to see how it turns out. My take after a short analysis Microsoft is going to start handing out the refunds so lets see what the week brings 8) Cheers, Amancio > On Monday, 15 February 1999 at 19:21:31 -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2209072,00.html > > It's funny that nobody has taken issue with the fact that Microsoft > refuses to even meet people with a legitimate business request. It's > one thing for them to hold a reception for people who are just along > for the ride, but they should have been available for the people who > wanted their money back. I see their action as being in a breach of > their own license. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message