From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 19:35:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839AD16A4B3 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:35:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D4C44028 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87152BD41 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:35:33 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C289B51836; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:05:18 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:05:18 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Mick Ireland Message-ID: <20030928023518.GB11520@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1064669876.5aee8e20michael.ireland@myrealbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1064669876.5aee8e20michael.ireland@myrealbox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rumour Mill on FreeBSD Death Still .... X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 02:35:36 -0000 --oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 27 September 2003 at 23:37:56 +1000, Mick Ireland wrote: > Greetings !!! > > I sent away for a book, FreeBSD - The Complete Reference, to help > me understand more about this OS, from an Internet site. > > No problems, got the book all okay, and there was everything I wanted - > except that I was given a "Powered by Linux" computer badge !! > > So, I sent back an e-mail, thanking them for their prompt service > and also a snide remark about their penguin badge : > > "G'day !!! > > "Just want to let you know that my parcel FreeBSD - The Complete Reference > - has arrived and all in one piece too. :-) > > "Though why you would send me a Linux badge .... ;-)" > > I got this as their response : > > "We did send you a Linux badge because we heard rumours that > BSD is dying. We want you to be aware of any close alternatives in case > death is imminent." (Not wearing core hat) I'd be very interested to hear who told you that. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. NOTE: Due to the currently active Microsoft-based worms, I am limiting all incoming mail to 131,072 bytes. This is enough for normal mail, but not for large attachments. Please send these as URLs. --oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/dkjmIubykFB6QiMRAjoeAJ9NNLt50ssgEyNThV92llBQDWTiLQCglTsK j1XZXVigzF5agT5QFbg5jyk= =J7HF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl--