From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 8 1:40:14 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 842FC37B405 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 01:40:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB89dvx19856; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:39:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <025d01c17fcc$4c8783d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Konstantinos Konstantinidis" , , "Brad Knowles" References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a0 0000a@atkielski.com><3C110351.4748B559@duth.gr><005001c17f6c$e60c0ef0$ 0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org> <006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C11560B.A035DEF3@duth.gr> <009401c17f9c$5bad3bf0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <010601c17fab$1cd2b270$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <016f01c17fb4$b3c1fc00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <01e401c17fbe$0f0ae2d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:39:51 +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 Brad writes: > You can't define an orange to be a pear. I can make general statements about fruits that apply to both. I can also make general statements about fruits that remain valid even though there may be specific exceptions. > Claims to the contrary and all attempts at > revisionist history don't change the facts. The original claims do not establish facts, either. > No, you annoy me because ... I know why I annoy you; you don't have to explain. > Depends on how you define "statistically significant". Well, let's say two percent or more. So? > Based on what evidence I've encountered so far, > it seems that various different Linux distributions > and FreeBSD are pretty popular replacements. How would you quantify "pretty popular"? According to my Web stats at this very moment, all visitors to my site under all versions of UNIX put together represent only 0.4% of total visits. Either there are not many out there, or they are keeping an extremely low profile. > If you made the point you wanted to make, > then why are you continuing to spam everyone? I'm not spamming anyone. There's just a certain entertainment value in watching the hotheaded young males tilt at windmills. They must be difficult to work with in a professional environment, though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message