Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 13:43:12 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: Halloween memo - what does it mean? Message-ID: <XFMail.981106134312.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981105234842.00aa25c0@genesis.ispace.com>
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On 06-Nov-98 Drew Baxter wrote: > ---Cnet.com was dropped from the CC, didn't think it needed to go to > them?--- > At 09:44 PM 11/5/98 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: >>Yes, Terry, you may go to the bathroom. Anyone else? I thought not. > Damn, can I have the pass when he gets back, Mr. Peters? Djeez guys, knock it off, choking in my tea here... =) >>So why, you must ask yourself, are we hearing about the "Linux threat" >>daily? Why is something that has NEVER before popped up on the radar >>screen suddenly become the "talk of the town?" Why do we suddenly >>have two memos leaked from one of the most paranoid organizations in >>the world, perhaps second only to Intel? Why indeed! What is Microsoft >>up to? > > I don't hear about it every day. But pretty close. I started to hear > about the Linux threat when I was reading up on Caldera's "You can use DR > DOS Under Windows 95, it's just Microsoft sucks" stuff. Good article btw. I still wonder why they choose the penguin and not the lemming as a mascot. >>And that is the point of all this, is it not: Microsoft cannot have >>a MONOPOLY on desktop computing because all those rabid Linux fans >>out there are giving away their system, right? > > Free is the universal solvent. You can't beat free. That's why you see > people (Netmarket for instance) giving away free Travel stuff and things > like that. Because if they give it away, you look at their site, maybe buy > something, sign up, etc. There is the prime that makes it all tick, the free emphasis. I used to be an Amiga user and loved the free effort available back then. And now FreeBSD... (Can we say Matthew Dillon?) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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