From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 11 13:13:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (sydney.worldwide.lemis.com [192.109.197.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC7B837B4C5 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:13:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eAABuTu04025; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:56:29 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:56:29 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Lanny Baron Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: accessing portal site Message-ID: <20001110195629.J1686@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 01:19:03PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 8 November 2000 at 13:19:03 -0500, Lanny Baron wrote: > To whom this may concern, > The fact that the site, > http://program.intel.com/mp/admin/c_dynamic.asp?FILE=businessadvantage/index1.htm > FORCES a user to use Micro$oft i.e. 5 is disgusting. > > I cannot think of any reason(s) why, Intel Corporation would not allow a > user to use Netscape to get into the portal site. The same applies to the > online training for the Intel Certification downloads. > > Our company, Freedom Technologies Corporation, only builds Intel Inside > and (not currently allowed by your gov't) Intel Outside Servers. By that I > mean we only sell/promote Intel Chassis, Intel serverboards, Intel Pentium > III Processors (no celerons). > > We only put on the servers sold, the OS called FreeBSD, which Micro$oft > uses to run HotMail.com and Yahoo! uses for its more than 1000+ web > servers. > > I kindly ask on behalf of the Unix community, that your corporation ceases > from forcing the use of Micro$oft products to get into some sites (the > portal for example). > > To backup what I have said about MS and Yahoo! please visit the following > URL: > > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/05/29/BU20648.DTL > > Thank you, > > Lanny Baron > http://freedomtc.com Lanny, I'd appreciate if you wouldn't copy the FreeBSD advocacy list on this kind of message. I personally disagree with its tone, and I'm sure that you're not going to make any friends at Intel with words like "disgusting". By copying us on this kind of message, you're implying that we agree with this opinion. It's another matter if you want to forward this kind of message to us. I'm still not interested, but others might be. I don't want to limit your freedom of expression, just the incorrect impressions of the FreeBSD project that you might arouse with such messages. Apart from that, I tried accessing the URL about which you are complaining, and the only problem I had was that it required a password. If there's a problem, it would seem that at least you have specified the wrong URL. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message