From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 29 16:35:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [63.86.88.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF9C437B416; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:35:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 069BF7598; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:35:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0388E1D97; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:35:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:35:33 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Eric Melville Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) In-Reply-To: <20011129133936.A90325@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Eric Melville wrote: :> We would still be sitting in front of timesharing terminals connected to UNIX :> systems. :> I have no problem with people using FreeBSD as a desktop OS, if they really want :> to fit square pegs into round holes. :Using your very own "strength in numbers" logic, I can claim that your :opinion is not of any value in comparison to someone like Steve Jobs. Jobs, :incidently, thinks that unix makes a great desktop. Billions of flies can't be wrong, so eating shit must be good. Or can we just drop the 'fly diet' argument now? Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message