Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:34:18 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Jim Mock <jim@lust.geekhouse.net>, Anthony Chavez <magus@magus.users.xmission.com>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rms runs FreeBSD? (was: RWS) Message-ID: <20000917113418.A257@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000917103631.D42114@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:36:31AM %2B0930 References: <20000916133833.H12955@magus.users.xmission.com> <20000916174932.A81641@envy.geekhouse.net> <20000917103631.D42114@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:36:31AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 16 September 2000 at 17:49:32 -0700, Jim Mock wrote: > > > > Ask him why www.stallman.org runs on FreeBSD ;-) That provide some > > interesting conversation. > > > > See http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.stallman.org for the facts. > > www.stallman.org is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on FreeBSD > > Fascinating. Yes, I'd like to hear his response to that question, > too. > I sincerely hope that this is true, but read http://www.netcraft.com/os/accuracy.html before you go storming in :) > My rms story: at the AUUG winter conference in September 1998, I went > to a Stallman Emacs tutorial. He was late (which is normal enough; > expect him to be late at your event as well), and while we were > waiting I went to my hotel room to get my laptop. When I came down I > found Stallman standing in the empty lobby, looking lost. I took him > to the tutorial, where he unpacked his old, mouldy laptop out of an > even older, mouldy plastic bag, and discovered he had left the power > supply behind. He ended up using my laptop, running (of course) > FreeBSD. At the time he was quite complimentary about FreeBSD, saying > that it was, after all, free software, and that it was just a pity > about that dreadful license. > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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