From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 20 5:52:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0951537B41D for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 05:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 64068 invoked by uid 100); 20 Sep 2001 12:52:51 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15273.59043.419743.938164@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 07:52:51 -0500 To: Bill Moran Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does FreeBSD make a difference in a government context ? In-Reply-To: <126529085@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran types: > On Wednesday 19 September 2001 21:01, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > > Sorry, I just got word from my boss that he INSISTED that I buy a > > copy of Windows XP professional and use it on my home box instead > > of FreeBSD. I'm still a little riled. > Wow. Anyone tried to tell me what I _had_ to run on my personal home PC > and I think I'd laugh myself silly! If I paid the $$ for the machine, it's running > FreeBSD. Yup. I had a client ask when I was going to join the 20th century so he could send me MS proprietary cruft. I told him to send me a PC with what he wanted me to have installed on it, and expect to pay for my time moving things back and forth. He started sending stuff in HTML. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message