From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 17:30:11 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 2071516A4CF for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 17:30:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [193.197.184.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA50843F75 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 17:30:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with gbsmtp id 1AHCUq-0006z0-00; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 02:30:08 +0100 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) hA514642000387 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 02:04:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull@kemoauc.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hA5145ou000386 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 02:04:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 01:04:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200311041029.07614.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can't believe he said that! 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: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 01:30:11 -0000 Johnson David wrote: > "I would say that for the consumer market place, Windows probably > continues to be the right product line" I was rather more disturbed by the local authorized Apple dealer's insistence on trying to sell an MS Windows PC to my father. (I was along for knowledgeable advice.) I had to point out rather indelicately that we would certainly not buy such a PC from this store, in order to force the salesguy to even discuss a Mac. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de