From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 4:38:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 452BB37B405 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 04:38:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 04:38:52 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 04:38:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: [OT] Amazing rebuttal to MS open-source FUD Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020513113852545.AAA1067@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> 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 The article below includes an amazing, although long, letter from a Peruvian government official responding to the local Microsoft rep's contention that the recent Peruvian government inclination to standardize on open-source software will (to paraphrase) result in the demise of the software industry, heh. I wish US officials had the clarity and perception of this guy. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25157.html -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message