From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 16 23: 0:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from funbox.demon.co.uk (funbox.demon.co.uk [158.152.85.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F636151F8 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:00:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dev.null@funbox.demon.co.uk) Received: from funbox.demon.co.uk, ID 3832420C-3067, Wed, 17 Nov 1999 05:50:04 UTC To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org From: dev.null@funbox.demon.co.uk (do not use this address) X-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 05:50:04 +0000 Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <3832420C.3067@funbox.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 05:50:04 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Schwartz wrote: > What truth? What are you talking about? How am I being mislead? How > has Bill Gates convinced me that my NT desktop is more useful than a > Linux desktop when I have used both extensively? I have an Irix > desktop not 6 feet from me that I could be using, but I don't. What > other facts do I need? When matters begin to get as religious as this, it may be worth remembering what Festinger wrote in his "Theory of Cognitive Dissonance", way back when. (1957, iirc) I suspect that David is not going to budge, whether he would like to or not :-) -- Tim Jackson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ please reply to: t i m . j @ f u n b o x . d e m o n . c o . u k ======================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message