Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:21:04 +1000 From: Alastair Rankine <alastair@cia.com.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Draft of Nader letter Message-ID: <3580BA4900000019@clarence.progmatics.com.au> (added by clarence.progmatics.com.au) In-Reply-To: <199806150000.SAA04235@lariat.lariat.org>
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At 06:00 PM 14/06/98 -0600, you wrote: >James Love, assistant to Ralph Nader, has published a draft of a letter to >be sent to the Justice Department regarding alternatives to Microsoft OSes. >The letter shows a heavy bias toward Linux and makes some incorrect >statements about FreeBSD. We should send feedback urging them to be less >Linux-centric, mention the other *BSDs, correct the information on FreeBSD, >and include commercial OSes (such as BSDI, QNX, BeOS, etc.) as well as just >the free ones as alternatives to Microsoft's products. The draft can be >found at > >http://www.essential.org/antitrust/ms/jkjun151998.html I couldn't see any factual errors regarding FreeBSD, nor could I see a bias towards Linux. Maybe it has been updated already? -- [ Alastair Rankine ] [ mailto:alastair@cia.com.au ] [ http://www.cia.com.au/alastair ] [ pgp5 64E4 B67C D2B7 EEC4 63C9 AA74 F63A 9AD9 E44B 21C7 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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