Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:59:03 +0100 From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> To: "Bill A. K." <billieakay@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition Message-ID: <39292107.CCEE8836@charm.net> References: <000b01bfc35d$c8c3c030$0200a8c0@bill> <20000522093603.B77130@freebie.lemis.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Greg Lehey wrote: > > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > On Sunday, 21 May 2000 at 15:50:14 -0400, Bill A. K. wrote: > > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 > > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 > > > > Hello everyone, > > I've had this petition up for a while, and I'm trying to get more traffic and names. I'm trying to get something to convince Microsoft to port Internet Explorer for UNIX to FreeBSD. > > The URL for my site is http://www.iefreebsd.freeservers.com > > If you would be interested in a small banner, etc. for your own web site, please let me know, and I'll see what I can do. > > I think this is a very bad idea. Look at your mail message for one > good reason why: Microsoft software is just plain broken. You > probably don't even realise that your message was written without line > breaks. Isn't it much easier to read like this? I delete those broken messages even when in win/netscape (like now) without reading them. Chasing a single line paragraph around is just a waste of time. I ain't got time to waste. And, I prefer to have NS not wrap lines for me, it messes up other messages. > > I've had this petition up for a while, and I'm trying to get more > > traffic and names. I'm trying to get something to convince Microsoft > > to port Internet Explorer for UNIX to FreeBSD. The URL for my site > > is http://www.iefreebsd.freeservers.com If you would be interested > > in a small banner, etc. for your own web site, please let me know, > > and I'll see what I can do. > > In the FreeBSD project, we're trying to get away from Microsoft, not > come closer to it. If there were a counter-petition to ask Microsoft > *not* to port IE, I would sign it. > > Greg > -- I loaded win/netscape6 last night. I seems to me that this is as close as I want to get to the MS or AOL look and feel. I thought I made an error and downloaded IE. Man is NS6 slow on a 486/100. -d ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?39292107.CCEE8836>