Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:40:54 -0400 From: "Andrew I. Arbuckle" <aiarbuckle@naxs.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>, Joey Garcia <bear@pacificnet.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple End-User FreeBSD Message-ID: <353F52F6.8D121E48@naxs.com> References: <199804230548.WAA18267@implode.root.com>
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For my ?Cents worth, Windows was made for people who do not want to compute, but require an appliance to accomplish something. You should allow your push for FreeBSD to take that direction. In any event, that is my interest in it, and I still use DOS for some things. David Greenman wrote: > > >At 08:26 PM 4/22/98 -0700, Joey Garcia wrote: > >>Although, some of you may suggest that Linux isn't the enemy...some may > >>suggest that Bill Gates and Windows NT is the enemy. I guess that's more > >>of a philosophical debate. I don't know. To me, Linux is more of a closer > >>enemy. They're the other Free Unix-like OS that hat a much bigger following. > > For those that have been in this for awhile like me, the battle is > Windows vs. Unix. Which variants of Unix aren't important; what's at stack is > the very philosophy of free and creative thinking. You say: Whoa! What has > he been smoking! Actually Van Jacobson (father of TCP/IP) put it best > (paraphrased) 'With Windows, all you can do is what they let you do. If there > isn't a button for it, then you can't do it. That's the fundamental difference > between Windows and Unix - With Unix you can string arbitrary commands > together (using pipes) and do something much grander then the individual > components would seemingly allow.' > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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