From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 12 04:27:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3498816A41F for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 04:27:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterclutton@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D57C43D45 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 04:27:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterclutton@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t13so846243wxc for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:27:45 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CBSNHz4kDndFHEqbOPoBK0xTLnII/uAJ7NgHoomk94A8o9EjwDt1ttV24i+f4MWSCHKEkZGjHj5Pctv+oyAQIyzc6JNaAEEOz5o+beHT2R2QAj4OeNYWsU7AQ62jGaZ0HqIsgtyD2I1ZE/iLVDrAA4noOHHvzyiW/sCvB4OYB8I= Received: by 10.70.129.18 with SMTP id b18mr2849037wxd; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:20:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.91.17 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:20:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <57416b300511112020t53a3408coee2b5d5962ccf5e4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:20:33 -0800 From: Peter Clutton To: Michael Vince In-Reply-To: <43753039.4040505@roq.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43753039.4040505@roq.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 04:27:46 -0000 On 11/11/05, Michael Vince wrote: > Its the same for the Internet if Gates had not put a 'get on the > Internet now' icon on all those win95 and 98 during the pc boom days to > trigger peoples interest the Internet it wouldn't be as cheap or as fast > as it is for end consumers. That's hilarious really. To mention that the internet was developed long before this on BSD systems probably isn't necessary. It also shouldn't be necessary for anyone who has followed the internet to mention Bill Gates' famous 1994 speech where he said that the internet was a play thing for researchers and academics and that Windows would never need to support TCP/IP. Next year (after someone obviously had a word in his ear) he basically said that Microsoft had just invented TCP/IP. Maybe this is where your confusion is coming from. And in the end I doubt that FreeBSD core team will be responsible for the end of the world lol. It's going a long way past reasonableness, and to answer it adequately would require a flame. Thus this will be my last post on this thread.