From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 25 16:31:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1048537BDB3 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 16:31:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA23779; Thu, 25 May 2000 18:31:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 18:31:28 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Darren Wyn Rees Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD? WAS:Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition In-Reply-To: <20000525195340.L93219@netlink.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 25 May 2000, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: : :What is so difficult about conceding that Microsoft have written :some user-friendly software that sells exceptionally well ? It sells well. IT's not user friendly. : :And Microsoft s/w tends to install first time. For many people, :that is more important than anything else. And the second, third, fourth and so forth times too! David, who had to reinstall printer drivers on his windoze box (my employer insists on using microsoft mail crap) for the third time in a month today. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message