From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 20:28:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F226C37BB31 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 20:28:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-71-245.dialup.hiwaay.net [216.180.71.245]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e4M3Ser21720 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 22:28:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA69519 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 22:28:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200005220328.WAA69519@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition In-reply-to: Message from Greg Lehey of "Mon, 22 May 2000 09:36:03 +0930." <20000522093603.B77130@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:28:37 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey writes: > [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 traf fic and names. I'm trying to get something to convince Microsoft to port Intern et 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, p lease 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'd like to see MS port IE to FreeBSD. Then when I don't use IE it will mean something more than it does now. > 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. That's the biggest problem I see with Linux: that Microsoft is their yardstick. One of the nice things about FreeBSD is that it strives for better. That reminds me, this came up in fortune(6) the other day: Women who want to be equal to men lack imagination -- Graffito in a women's restroom Adjusted for relevance: Unices who want to be the equal to Microsoft Windows lack imagination. -- heard on a FreeBSD mailing list -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message