Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:01:33 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> To: "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD Message-ID: <20001025200133.A30303@home.com> In-Reply-To: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CE2@exchange.panasonicfa.com>; from AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:52:06PM -0500 References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CE2@exchange.panasonicfa.com>
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:52:06PM -0500, Zaitsau, Andrei wrote: > Okay.. I hate doing this again. > But what makes the Computer manufacturers not to ship computers with > preinstalled FreeBSD on it, it has no licenses, it's free, it's very robust > and reliable OS. They don't have to waste money on commercial OS then... > One more time, people won't buy those computers then, because FreeBSD will > be too complicated to them. UNIX is far too complicated for the average user who just wants to surf the Web and write am occasional letter. However, that is not the only issue here. Microsoft has engaged in questionable, if not illegal practices in order to gain and maintain their monopoly on the desktop. Microsoft also tries to intimidate hardware vendors by hinting that computer vendors and manufacturers could be liable for somehow abetting software piracy if they sell a computer without an OS. Since most computer makers already have contracts with MS, guess what OS they are going to install. Victor Cardona To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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