From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Apr 27 06:54:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15094 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 06:54:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from login-2.eunet.no (0@login-2.eunet.no [193.71.71.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15066 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 06:54:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no) Received: from arwen.myst.no (pc46.bergen-pm2-1.eunet.no [193.75.12.53]) by login-2.eunet.no (8.8.8/8.8.3/Torbjorn) with ESMTP id PAA05860 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:27:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (hjv@localhost) by arwen.myst.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA00586 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 00:50:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no) X-Authentication-Warning: arwen.myst.no: hjv owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 00:50:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Haavard Vaagstoel X-Sender: hjv@arwen.myst.no Reply-To: Haavard Vaagstoel To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE In-Reply-To: <354379E2.C9E88D1A@domain.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, simon wrote: Simon, you really should set a proper email address; this message appeared to come from "defaultuser@domain.com". > Now the only way to change this is by showing, not how good is one > compared to the other (FreeBSD-Win/NT) but how profitable and efficient > the product is. I will start by giving them just a peek to heaven, when > I succeed, FreeBSD unix will gain a battle in this very complicated War > scenario, and probably I will gain some adepts among my colleagues and > clients. Well, it is indeed a war that needs to be fought. From what you are describing here, you could say that FreeBSD is used as a weapon; not only versus Microsoft and Bill Gates, but versus foreign capitalistic interests (such as MS' interests in the software market) in poor countries in general. Perhaps you could think of it as a symbol :-) Keep up the good work! -- Haavard Vaagstoel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message