From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 15 10:12:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01485 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 15 May 1998 10:12:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01461 for ; Fri, 15 May 1998 10:12:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ashort@concentric.net) Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely.concentric.net [207.155.184.83]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/04/23 5.10)) id NAA03472; Fri, 15 May 1998 13:12:10 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from mariner.cris.com (mariner.concentric.net [206.173.119.83]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.8.8) id NAA23604; Fri, 15 May 1998 13:12:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 13:12:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Short X-Sender: Ashort@mariner.cris.com To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG cc: "Larry W. Herzog Jr." Subject: Re: commercial software In-Reply-To: <199805151620.MAA18556@stratos.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 15 May 1998 drifter@stratos.net wrote: > alternatives!) I'm just not a big fan of Microsoft's OS and don't like > it being forced on me. But I'd just think twice before getting Uncle Sam > involved, that's all. There's gotta to be another way... Any ideas :) I almost didn't sign up with my other-wise excellent ISP because they required Internet Explorer to complete the online sign-up. That's stupid, especially considering how straight-forward a STANDARD form is. I use Windows95 on the laptop (work PC) and was using it to dial in. When I was talking to the sales guy, I told him I was running 95 but not IE and he started in on the 'Well download IE and...' then I stopped him and told him that I shouldn't have to download a SPECIFIC browser just to sign up with them. Besides the fact that they were OBVIOUSLY only accepting online signups from Windows users...BUt as I said, other than that, they are a pretty great ISP. I find it hard to believe that they can offer shell accounts (which I think are becoming more and more rare in an ISP--Ameritech doesn't even let you use ftp to get to your own web pages) with SunOS on one hand, and be so incredibly, dumb-foundingly myopic on the other. At least they use SunOS for the shell account. I believe that SunOS is a BSD type Unix and therefore keeps me on topic, even if this is just "chat". =) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Short Colossians 3:23 ashort@concentric.net http://www.concentric.net/~ashort/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message