From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jun 15 3:58:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from degnet.de (degnet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC3A14C3B for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 03:57:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte.lance@gmx.net) Received: from neuron.webmore.prv (login43.intranet.degnet.de [172.24.1.52]) by degnet.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id MAA13067 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:56:45 +0200 Received: from neuron.webmore.prv (neuron.webmore.prv "Malte Lance") by neuron.webmore.prv (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01618 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:56:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199906151056.MAA01618@neuron.webmore.prv> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:55:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance Reply-To: malte.lance@gmx.net Subject: Users balk at German state's deal with Microsoft To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/14/ms.germany.idg/ "A group of open-source software users has asked the state's governor, Wolfgang Clement, to halt a sponsorship agreement it signed with the American software giant until the government can clarify why it chose Microsoft to help sponsor the new center. ... Members of the non-profit organization use many different systems, but the operating systems Linux and FreeBSD conform most closely to its values, Pilch said. ... " If this was already posted, sorry for the bandwidth. -- Malte Lance. --- composed with TkRat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message