From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 21 21:35:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02043 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 21:35:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scribe.intop.net (scribe.intop.net [206.156.254.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA02029 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 21:35:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smiledon@intop.net) Received: from tourney.intop.net (smiledon@tourney.intop.net [206.156.254.6]) by scribe.intop.net (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with SMTP id XAA14883; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:32:35 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 00:31:43 -0600 (CST) From: Charlie Schloemer To: chuck@ucsd.edu cc: "Jan B. Koum " , daniel lawrence , Wes Peters , Greg Lehey , Kelly Yancey , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tell Micro$oft what you think In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Chuck Rouillard wrote: > > > [snip] > > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > > Greg Lehey wrote: > [chop] > > > > HELLO!?!? > > With all due respect to all of you, I fail to see how all this > > "lets kill MS crap" is part of FreeBSD advocacy. Maybe I am > > the only one missing something here though? > > > > -- Yan > > I somewhat agree with Yan. We shouldn't be giving 'them' more > bandwidth on -Advocacy than our own beloved O/S, no? In the > words of Donald Trumpp: "Bad press is better than no press at all". > > -chuck I have to concur on this one, too. Love or hate Microsoft, they're largely responsible for the the low cost of PC hardware, making their software accessible and easy for home users. I don't care to ever USE any of this software in my lifetime, but I enjoy being able to build a killer system for $1500. FWIW. :-) -Charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message