Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 04:05:43 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: "Rich Wilson" <wk633@yahoo.com>, <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Message-ID: <002901c0f3f8$ca0d92a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010613123855.K57154@lpt.ens.fr>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Rahul Siddharthan [mailto:rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in] >Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 3:39 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Rich Wilson; advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again > > >Ted Mittelstaedt said on Jun 13, 2001 at 03:35:36: >> >> Even the major automakers in the world recognize that they aren't >> going to be able to cut into the market for something as ugly as a >> "new bug" so they are leaving Volkswagen alone on that one. > >:) Is that a statement on MacOS X? > I have but one word for you to consider: colors! ;) Seriously, it's more of a statement that when the going gets different, the different get ugly, and the uglier the better. Have you been in any modern art galleries lately? People pay a lot of money for those dropcloths I mean paintings, the gallery owners have quite a profitable racket I mean business going there. Pretty smart I'd say, fleecing I mean selling to those that flaunt their 'individuality' While the Mac isn't as expensive as a car, or a ugly statue, there's echos of the same physological trickery going on there. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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