From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 4 11:57:13 2002 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 1CE1937B405 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:57:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g34Jv1r70990; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:57:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <015901c1dc12$e59a9600$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Chat" , "Chip Morton" References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020404110321.019e61c0@threespace.com> Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:57:01 +0200 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 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Chip writes: > Hmmm...sounds like a little self-contradiction > there. Show the contradiction. > Frankly, I don't know why you would put up with > the whole activation thing if it bothers you > that much. The "whole activation thing" required about three seconds of my time. I needed a compatible version of Windows for my scanner. > With just a little more effort, you probably > could have gotten a blank system and slapped > Windows 2000 on it. That would have cost more than Windows XP Home Edition, and it would have required more of my time. Since I wasn't particularly keen to install 2000 over XP, anyway, it didn't make much difference to me (they both have similar architectures, in any case). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message