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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2000 09:36:03 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Bill A. K." <billieakay@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition
Message-ID:  <20000522093603.B77130@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <000b01bfc35d$c8c3c030$0200a8c0@bill>
References:  <000b01bfc35d$c8c3c030$0200a8c0@bill>

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On Sunday, 21 May 2000 at 15:50:14 -0400, Bill A. K. wrote:
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700                                                      
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700
>
> Hello everyone,
>      I've had this petition up for a while, and I'm trying to get more traffic and names. I'm trying to get something to convince Microsoft to port Internet Explorer for UNIX to FreeBSD.
> The URL for my site is http://www.iefreebsd.freeservers.com
> If you would be interested in a small banner, etc. for your own web site, please let me know, and I'll see what I can do.

I think this is a very bad idea.  Look at your mail message for one
good reason why: Microsoft software is just plain broken.  You
probably don't even realise that your message was written without line
breaks.  Isn't it much easier to read like this?

> I've had this petition up for a while, and I'm trying to get more
> traffic and names. I'm trying to get something to convince Microsoft
> to port Internet Explorer for UNIX to FreeBSD.  The URL for my site
> is http://www.iefreebsd.freeservers.com If you would be interested
> in a small banner, etc. for your own web site, please let me know,
> and I'll see what I can do.

In the FreeBSD project, we're trying to get away from Microsoft, not
come closer to it.  If there were a counter-petition to ask Microsoft
*not* to port IE, I would sign it.

Greg
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