Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:29:51 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <3DE16EFF.E1E15BFD@mindspring.com> References: <3DDF7691.22726.4FCB4F2@localhost> <02dc01c29338$320168c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DDFF5A3.10708@mtbiker.net> <02ed01c2933c$e2b7c390$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DE00F41.D5D828E9@mindspring.com> <031c01c29356$7f408300$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DE071F3.F7D8CAAA@mindspring.com> <038501c293b4$2a6a6f90$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Terry writes: > > Blind, unreasoning support of it by morons > > who have bought into the idea that "What's > > good for Microsoft, is good for America"? > > Quite the opposite. As a mainstream operating system, Windows is used and > endorsed by many people with no emotional investment in their choice of > operating system. Name one of these people without an emotional investment in their choice of operating system, who would not want to save $100 off the price of a new computer. > Most see it as a tool that matches requirements. When > their relative calm and objectivity is compared to the frothing emotion of > advocates of many other operating systems, the prudent choice (for those who > are likewise uninvolved emotionally) is clear. "Whatever cheaper". Operating systems are a commodity, like telephone long distance service or cell phone provider, or the company you buy your computer from: whoever is cheaper. > > You are a paid troll. > > Who is paying me? I expect that it's Microsoft, through a cutout company. Your presence on this list is like clockwork: during the time that college would be in session, you are here, and during college break, you are not. I rather expect I could identify your location by performing a traffic analysis, and comparing it with University schedules. [ ... lots of blather ... ] So why *are* you here, if you aren't being paid to be here, as you claim? Why do you persist in advocating Windows in a forum which is not intended for that purpose? What is your payback for the effort you are expending, if it is not in $? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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