From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 30 1:51: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A63FB37B400 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 01:50:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0120.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.120] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16rFVT-0005rn-00; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 01:50:44 -0800 Message-ID: <3CA58A5D.1D8E00B5@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 01:50:21 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Brett Glass , Chip Morton , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: run Microsoft Office without Windows References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020329211251.03040d70@nospam.lariat.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: [ Brett Says ... Gary says ... Brett says .... ] I find it incredibly amusing when poeple bitch about the quality, stability, and security of Misrosoft products. Then they gloat about the quality, stability, and security of "Open Source" software (basically, quoting such documents as "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", without ever having read the source code for which it is a case study, to quantify exactly what the quality, stability, and security is that they are talking about. Then, based on all that, they go and pick a license which precludes most commercial use by companies, such that they have to keep doing business the way that was first being complained about... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message