From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 05:03:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E157816A4CE for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 05:03:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m18.mx.aol.com (imo-m18.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4068143D31 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 05:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Sigmascape1@cs.com) Received: from Sigmascape1@cs.com by imo-m18.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r1.3.) id n.46.4eb7839a (15876) for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 08:03:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cs.com (mow-d16.webmail.aol.com [205.188.139.132]) by air-id07.mx.aol.com (v99_r4.3) with ESMTP id MAILINID73-3e0440ac9e8a390; Thu, 20 May 2004 08:03:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 08:03:22 -0400 From: Sigmascape1@cs.com To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4F716FCF.405BFF0D.3F8EDD3A@cs.com> X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 X-AOL-IP: 65.82.194.242 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: FreeBSD & Open Source X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:03:56 -0000 Hi everyone! This is my first post to this list. I am fairly new to the FreeBSD project, although I have followed some of the previous releases (starting with v4.2) and general news. Many interest in FreeBSD is primarily in the 'Big Picture' of things as it relates to open source. For the past 5 years, I've been an advocate of a couple of specific oss efforts, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla. in a general sense, I have advocated the use of Linux as a replacement for a certain operating system that originates in WA. I hope to discuss a lot of issues, and I hope to learn a lot! Thanks! MLF