From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 5 9: 5: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hatrack.unc.edu.ar (unknown [170.210.248.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C369637B401 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 09:05:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from meschoyez@ubp.edu.ar) Received: from lcd.efn.uncor.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hatrack.unc.edu.ar (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f75G4Nq15972 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 13:04:23 -0300 Received: from localhost (meschoyez@localhost) by lcd.efn.uncor.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA09123; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 13:34:38 -0300 X-Authentication-Warning: lcd.efn.uncor.edu: meschoyez owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 13:34:37 -0300 (ART) From: Maximiliano Eschoyez X-Sender: meschoyez@lcd.efn.uncor.edu To: joel2a@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010803221311.00cb62e0@mail.intwebservices.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -> Well I just have to say that if there wasn't Windows we would all be back -> the days of console prompt typing and there certainly would not be as many -> people on the internet. I'm not saying that Windows isn't good. I think that Mr Gates let lots of people to have a computer at office/home with a relatively simple OS. -> While Unix is good and freebsd is cool to have much of the open source -> software is still very bugged. Microsoft's products still very bugged and are commercial ones. -> Word processing in a console and putting it through Postscript to get -> formatting! GIVE ME A BREAK! Some of you Microsoft bashers are worse than -> not having a clue! How about getting a life! Sorry, but you never tried to have very high quality with a slow machine. Try to run Office or Staroffice with a 486 box, this is having a life. I'm not a Microsoft basher, I only like systems that follow KISS (Keep It Short and Simple). Of course, I work with video compression and I need graphical systems, but I still preferring text terminals Regards, M@X To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message