From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 23 14: 8:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7133E37B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 14:08:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1327843E3B for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 14:08:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id gANM8f991640 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 23:08:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <02ed01c2933c$e2b7c390$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Advocacy" References: <3DDF7691.22726.4FCB4F2@localhost> <02dc01c29338$320168c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DDFF5A3.10708@mtbiker.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 23:08:42 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John writes: > Look, dude, why don't you go and start > microsoft-windowsxp-advocacy somewhere else. I'm curious: How do you hope to win new converts to FreeBSD if you cannot tolerate anyone who isn't already converted? > Leave the rest of us UNIX/BSD users alone. How will you increase your numbers if you are unwilling to discuss your favorite operating system with heathen users of other operating systems? > We enjoy UNIX desktops. Obviously. > How hard is that for you to comprehend? Not hard at all. But the list is dedicated to advocacy, not the status quo, and telling people to go away every time they fail to embrace FreeBSD unconditionally and completely isn't going to encourage the spread of the OS. > Actually, I invite you to try Mac OS X. Windows already does everything that I require, and nowadays I don't play with computers for their own sakes unless I'm paid for it. > Wonderful desktop, BSD underneath, beats the > snot out of WindowsXP as far as ease of use. So what do you run for your desktop? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message