From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 31 15:11:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (usr.srcsys.org [209.42.222.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A13737B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 15:11:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 16347 invoked by uid 1000); 31 May 2001 22:07:10 -0000 Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 18:07:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joseph A. Mallett" X-X-Sender: To: Brett Glass Cc: Mike Meyer , Subject: Re: The desktop apathy? I think not. In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010531160004.04a02910@localhost> Message-ID: 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, 31 May 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 03:56 PM 5/31/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > >That's more idiotic than Brett's usual treacle. > > Red alert! Incoming ad hominem attack detected! You might be interested to know that RMS' comments about you show up in a Google search for your name. Funny stuff, really, since he sounds so... pathetic? > > >HP isn't a software company, it's a hardware company. > > Gee, I guess that HP/UX and MPE aren't software. Nor is > the embedded code that makes so many of their products > tick. The software bundles that came with a new HP box I've seen recently is even bigger than most SGI bundles. In short: Shitloads of software. Lest not ye forget HP LVM stuff. > > >GPL software doesn't > >kill technically superior products the way MS does. > > Not so. GCC has killed many technically superior compilers. I rather like TenDRA > > --Brett Glass > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message