From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 21 15:58:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21843 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 15:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vixa.voyager.net (vixa.voyager.net [198.109.136.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21765 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 15:58:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kib@poboxes.com) Received: from kib ([209.153.178.194]) by vixa.voyager.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA01837; Thu, 21 May 1998 18:57:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <009901bd850c$65cbd1c0$023aa8c0@kib.kib.net> Reply-To: "Jason" From: "Jason" To: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" Cc: Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft. Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 19:01:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Now that's an idea.....I just never thought of getting an OS with a PC...Never have and probably never will. No point in it. How many copies of a certain OS do I really need. If I had it on an old machine and replace it with a new one why re-buy the same software? Jason -----Original Message----- From: Mikhail A. Sokolov To: Jason Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, May 21, 1998 7:43 AM Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft. >On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 05:18:13PM -0400, Jason wrote: ># ># Now if it is found out that MS is involved in muder and gambling or ># something else ilegal then there is a case....but unless they can find ># something like MS forcing OEMs do something like: not allowing them to ># install something that consumers might want. > >Interesting. Anybody ever thought of say, contracting someone so that >their boxes come with preinstalled FreeBSD or, at least, shipping the CD's? > ># ># Jason > >-- >-mishania > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message