From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 6 04:39:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA24676 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 04:39:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA24647 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 04:39:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.58.34]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA961; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:39:12 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981105234842.00aa25c0@genesis.ispace.com> Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 13:43:12 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: Halloween memo - what does it mean? Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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