From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 22 23: 0:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smarty.smart.net (smarty.smart.net [207.176.80.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A856637B7C7; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 23:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdd@smart.net) Received: from localhost (rdd@localhost) by smarty.smart.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA18400; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 01:58:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 01:58:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "R. D. Davis" To: Andrew MacIntyre Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , "Lawrence Cotnam Jr." , Josh Paetzel , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Thanks and apology - and medical office software inquiry (was: Legacy Device Support (Was RE: No help...)) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, To all of those who've worked hard to create and continue the development of FreeBSD, I apologize if what I wrote about my system crash after the upgrade and the difficulty getting the tape drives and ethernet to work seemed like flames. No flames were intended. All that aside, which is hopefully just a very temporary problem, I still think that FreeBSD is a great OS - the exact opposite of that horrid Microcrud^H^H^H^Hsoft. Foolishly I tried the upgrade just before I needed to use my FreeBSD box to research and write a paper pertaining to something Microsoft's involved in. Now that 2.2.5 is reinstalled on part of my hard drive (4.0 will be on the other), so I can get on with some work, it feels great to have this system back again! BTW, I successfully installed version 4.0 of FreeBSD on a system at work last week. :-) Thanks again! Speaking of Microsoft, beware: they're sending platoons of sales goons to physicians offices, etc. to sell Healtheon/WebMD products for claims processing, etc., possibly with the goal of displacing non-Microsoft and non-Healtheon-related systems used for medical information processing (this involves transferring patient information over the Internet); that's not all, the marketing goons they send out don't deny that they want to use the access they get to your medical records for a certain purpose: to make money by selling the information to other companies - profiting from their access to your "confidential" medical data. It also appears that WebMD could possibly be in the business of providing medical information that may be slanted a tad in favor of big business at the expense of your health - check it out and see what conclusion you draw, based upon the businesses involved. Is anyone writing any medical claims processing, or any other medical software - commercial or free, using FreeBSD? Have a great weekend! -- R. D. Davis rdd@perqlogic.com http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd 410-744-4900 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message