From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 2 14:15:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A28237B405 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:15:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB2MESx18145; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 23:14:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <010401c17b7e$bb7e31f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Giorgos Keramidas" Cc: "Mike Meyer" , References: <15370.26355.292711.525268@guru.mired.org> <00e601c17b5e$a3af1ff0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011202192417.GA1559@hades.hell.gr> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 23:14:28 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 Giorgos writes: > No, it's not a logical solution, because I > don't want to pay for software I'm not going > to use. That is not logical. Recall that Mike said that the system cost more without MS software than with it, given identical hardware. Therefore the lowest-cost solution is to buy the system with the MS software, then remove the software. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message