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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
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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
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