From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Dec 20 15:12:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5608937B405 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:12:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32412 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2001 23:12:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Dec 2001 23:12:20 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <02c101c189ab$1dc9c560$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:12:02 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Anthony Atkielski Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy? Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy , Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy , Gilbert Gong , advocacy@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Dec-01 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > John writes: > >> Actually, it would be better written as so: >> >> Someone belives that there exists some >> specific circumstance such that FreeBSD is a >> valid desktop. The opposite of this statement >> (as should be evident from basic Math proof >> courses) is: For all specific circumstances, >> FreeBSD is not a valid desktop. This, then, >> is what Jeremiah "believes". > > You are overlooking many possibilities. > > If the original statement is "There exists some specific circumstance in > which FreeBSD is a suitable desktop," then if Jeremiah disagrees with this, > he may disagree in multiple ways, including (but not limited to): No. Have you had a math class involving "there-exists" proofs? If I say "There exists some number X such that X^2 is 16." and you say "No, I don't agree". That means you don't think that there is an X such that X^2 is 16. This is the same as saying that for all possibilites of X, X^2 != 16. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message