From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 24 08:08:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA03769 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:08:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA03762 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:07:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA09241 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:07:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:07:05 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: bloated operating systems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This microsoft quote from an infoworld article caught my eye: "We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users," Maritz said regarding the concept of delivering JFCs on top of the Windows operating system. So, microsoft has decided to change their ways? (see http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?970724.ejava.htm for the rest of the article.) -john