From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 25 15:42:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA17231 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wakky.dyn.ml.org (lee@1Cust73.tnt1.manassas.va.da.uu.net [153.37.113.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA17222 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lee@localhost) by wakky.dyn.ml.org (8.8.5/8.8.3) id SAA00919; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 18:42:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970825184219.02943@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 18:42:19 -0400 From: Lee Cremeans To: Chuck Robey Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Since the MicroSloth(tm) jokes have been flowing... Reply-To: hcremean@vt.edu References: <19970825211642.11606@grendel.IAEhv.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79e In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 05:56:44PM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE X-Evil: microsoft.com Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 05:56:44PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > This is more than a little irritating. It's nearly impossible nowadays to > buy a PC without contributing to MS, whether you intend to run Windows or > not. They _didn't_ fairly win the market, they _aren't_ fairly keeping > the market, sure they have good tools, because they have outright stolen > what they couldn't buy (see Stacker!). This is why I decided a while back not to buy a whole computer again, to just buy the parts piecemeal. I don't use or like Windoze that much, so why should I have to pay for a copy? -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD++^i WK+++r P&B++ SL+++^i GDF- B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Di $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac Ee34/1/36 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code