From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 19 17: 6:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sneakerz.org (sneakerz.org [216.33.66.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E64337B403 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:06:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@sneakerz.org) Received: by sneakerz.org (Postfix, from userid 1092) id DA4415D01F; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:05:58 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:05:58 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Jeffrey M. Reed" Cc: Hal Snyder , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect) Message-ID: <20010619190558.C4543@sneakerz.org> References: <200106181202.AA66191580@stmail.pace.edu> <87d781h0f6.fsf@ghidra.vail> <01061920032100.00956@alpha1.moonbase> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <01061920032100.00956@alpha1.moonbase>; from jmr71769@earthlink.net on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:03:21PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jeffrey M. Reed [010619 19:01] wrote: > On Monday 18 June 2001 18:45, Hal Snyder wrote: > > FYA. > > > > Migrating Microsoft® Hotmail® from FreeBSD to Microsoft > > Windows® 2000 Technical Case Study > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/migration/hotmail/hotapp > >.asp > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the > > message > > point made. they're migrating to 2K because 2K is just a [snip] No actually they migrated because thier sales people kept getting laughed at because Hotmail was running on something other than win2k. > the only thing good about M$ is they make a decent > GUI...that's it. Not that X is so wonderful, but please.. The MS windows GUI is boring, and overbearing, it lacks remote display without add-on and there's very little flexiblity in what your desktop can do. The look and feel of Windows sucks rocks, the only thing they(*) got right was being able to do a decent job with drag and drop. (*) by they, I mean Apple of course. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message