From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 06:43:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C2A16A4B3 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thuis.piwebs.com (217-19-20-186.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.20.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C519B43FF3 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avleeuwen@piwebs.com) Received: (qmail 28471 invoked by uid 85); 27 Sep 2003 13:43:26 -0000 Received: from avleeuwen@piwebs.com by thuis.piwebs.com by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20rc1 (uvscan: v4.2.40/v4288. Clear:RC:1:. Processed in 0.0727100000000001 secs); 27 Sep 2003 13:43:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.0.109) (192.168.0.109) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Sep 2003 13:43:25 -0000 From: Arjan van Leeuwen To: "Mick Ireland" Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 15:43:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1064669876.5aee8e20michael.ireland@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <1064669876.5aee8e20michael.ireland@myrealbox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309271543.17343.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rumour Mill on FreeBSD Death Still .... X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 13:43:21 -0000 On Saturday 27 September 2003 15:37, Mick Ireland wrote: > Greetings !!! > > I sent away for a book, FreeBSD - The Complete Reference, to help > me understand more about this OS, from an Internet site. > > No problems, got the book all okay, and there was everything I wanted - > except that I was given a "Powered by Linux" computer badge !! > > So, I sent back an e-mail, thanking them for their prompt service > and also a snide remark about their penguin badge : > > "G'day !!! > > > "Just want to let you know that my parcel FreeBSD - The Complete Reference > - has arrived and all in one piece too. :-) > > > "Though why you would send me a Linux badge .... ;-)" > > I got this as their response : > > "We did send you a Linux badge because we heard rumours that > BSD is dying. We want you to be aware of any close alternatives in case > death is imminent." > > Now, is that rumour still making the rounds ?? I mean, if it was only the > people on these lists that are the only users of FreeBSD forever, it will > still last longer than BeOS and such !!! > > As such, I do not know whether to be amused or annoyed by their reponse ! It's a 'joke' from a Linux guy. Read Slashdot to understand (or rather, read one of the trolls once, and then forget). Arjan