From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Nov 8 19:12:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29232 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 19:12:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29223 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 19:12:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA14024; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 20:11:42 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd013987; Sun Nov 8 20:11:39 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA06370; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 20:11:38 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811090311.UAA06370@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Halloween memo - what does it mean? To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 03:11:38 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, miker@cnet.com In-Reply-To: <36427EB4.AABA1891@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at Nov 5, 98 09:44:36 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-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Now how many of us here REALLY believe Microsoft is concerned with > the impact of Linux, Apache, Sendmail, or any other "Open Source > Software" on their bottom line? Show of hands? > > Yes, Terry, you may go to the bathroom. Anyone else? I thought not. I still doubt the origin of the memo, let alone that a company whose 1998 research budget alone could pay each US Senator $10,000,000 fears anyone or anything. I also doubt that the timing is for the antitrust suit. 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-advocacy" in the body of the message