From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Oct 7 1:33:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C0814EA5 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 01:33:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p08-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.137]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id RAA29748; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 17:32:28 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37FC5775.6057C161@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 17:19:01 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Kenneth Henry Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An article from Microsoft References: <19991007002950.26B0D15798@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Kenneth Henry wrote: > > The only point I agree with is "Linux can replace Windows on the desktop" > > Yes, I know Linux and *BSD are great desktop OSs, but only for people > who know how to use UNIX. For the average joe/jane, Windows and MacOS > are currently the best options. Let me respectfully disagree with you. Linux and *BSD, if pre-installed and running gnome or kde with a carefully prepared desktop and office-type applications is as easy to use as anything else out there. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "I always feel generous when I'm in the inner circle of a conspiracy to subvert the world order and, with a small group of allies, just defeated an alien invasion. Maybe I should value myself a little more?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message