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Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft...
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 23:58:14 -0400
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>On May 20, 11:53am, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

>
>This is your lament.  You speak with mixed voices.  First
>you favor to fight your own battles, as do I.  Then you say you
>don't care whether M$ has you on the hit list.  I have seen
>numerous post where you expressed the joy and rewards
>received from writting free software, so don't accuse me of
>not carefully reading you writing.  Where will those rewards
>come from once the free software ideal is crushed.  Yes
>perhaps There will always be some place where free software
>is used, but don't try to convince me that a person with your
>passion being involved with the FreeBSD project won't feel a
>big loss if M$ or anyone else sould crush the project.  That my
>friend is impingment on you freedom, and you tell me you don't
>give a damn.  In the end it is how reedom is defined.


I don't think there is much MS can do to FreeBSD.   It not like they are
going to get cheaper than FreeBSD.  What are they going to pay people to
switch?

Jason


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