From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 7 16:37:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01700 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 16:37:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01694; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 16:37:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4031.ime.net [209.90.195.41]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id TAA23169; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 19:37:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19981107193443.00a8a420@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 19:35:14 -0500 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: Halloween memo - what does it mean? Cc: wes@softweyr.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199811080035.QAA01424@hub.freebsd.org> References: <4.1.19981105234842.00aa25c0@genesis.ispace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 04:35 PM 11/7/98 -0800, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: >Drew Baxter wrote: >> Personally, I think Operating System manufacturers shouldn't be allowed to >> make market-competitive applications. Not if we're just going to have >> intentional flukes exploited by installing Exchange and Eudora on a machine >> or something like that. > > indeed. this is the maximal result from the lawsuit or > string of lawsuits that microsoft will/may face over > the next decade. breakup into OS company and applications > company(ies)....its happened before >jmb Here's some theory.... I bet they'll build a building down the street and it'll be "Microsoft 2.0".. :-) --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message