From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 3 14: 1:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F34014BCC for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 14:01:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA06555; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 16:14:19 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd006544; Sat Apr 3 16:14:14 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12667; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 14:59:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199904032159.OAA12667@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Chuck is cute To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 21:59:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <7e2pim$11m$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> from "Christian Weisgerber" at Apr 2, 99 06:00:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > As a technology, they discourage storageless browsing devices. > > > > Cry me a river. > > Yes, everybody runs a PC with MS-Windows 95/98 and Internet Explorer. > Considering anything else is just a waste. Yes. Anything which would get access technology into economically depressed regions at the price of not sending license fees to Redmond should be fought tooth and nail as damaging to innovation. $30-$50 devices are especially damaging to the Internet, as they would let all the riff-raff in to bother all us AOL users by seeking to use it as a tool in resolving their immediate mortal needs, like increasing crop yields beyond subsistance levels, taking all of the bandwidth away from more useful things like 20Mb dancing baby AVI and other such socially redeeming stuff. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message