From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 19 19:21:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF6037B403 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:21:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmr71769@earthlink.net) Received: from alpha1.moonbase (bstnma1-ar1-189-184.bstnma1.dsl.gtei.net [4.3.189.184]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA20799; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:21:07 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Jeffrey M. Reed" Organization: www.linuxbusca.com To: Jordan Hubbard , jjohnson@au.yahoo-inc.com Subject: Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:23:31 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: jmr71769@earthlink.net, hal@vailsys.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01061920032100.00956@alpha1.moonbase> <20010619184212P.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010619184212P.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061922233101.00956@alpha1.moonbase> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 stop being bastards. heh. i don't give a rat's ass about any of this. it just makes me mad/laugh that people are dumb enough to buy into that .net/hotmail/subscription based bullshit and other stuff. if you use it, i really don't care. in fact, M$ has been swell about helping the economy and all that shit...helping people get jobs. i just can't stand the fact that while 2K is decent, 'Me' is a piece of crap and they sell it to these poor stupid AOL/email people (hey, what the hell...i used to be one) and they slap the all-american M$ label on it and...ARGH! i'm not making any points here so screw it. go program something already. :) besides, a devil is much more macho than a gay little pastel colored window or something dumb called 'Me'...fucking marketing geniouses. >:\ and, i have nothing against gay people either...as long as they're not playing loud GAY music that i can hear. hehehhehehhe. On Tuesday 19 June 2001 21:42, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > From: "Jeremiah Johnson" > Subject: RE: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal > article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to > that effect) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:03:46 +1000 > > > That's the BSD license for ya. > > > > There needs to be a license that says something to the > > effect of "Anyone can use/buy/sell/modify/distribute > > this software with or without source code except > > Microsoft." > > Why? I'd personally be happy if Microsoft software was > made a lot easier to use by incorporating BSD stuff. > Imagine, a Windows 2000 firewall that didn't suck rocks, > or DHCP renegotiation that didn't drop all my active > connections by default when my modem hung up > unexpectedly... It would be nice! > > The only thing people are really slamming Microsoft here > is being hypocritical. Actually using BSD code is an > action I support for any value of the licensee string. :) > > - Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the > message -- +----- + Jeffrey M. Reed + Linux System Administrator + Metro West Boston Linux User Group + jreed@linuxbusca.com + (508)792-6070 +----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message