Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:28:37 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition Message-ID: <200005220328.WAA69519@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> of "Mon, 22 May 2000 09:36:03 %2B0930." <20000522093603.B77130@freebie.lemis.com>
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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
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