Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:38:42 -0500 From: "gh" <grasshacker@linkfast.net> To: <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>, <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD? WAS:Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition Message-ID: <00ae01bfc680$dddff9e0$a364aad0@leviathan> References: <000b01bfc35d$c8c3c030$0200a8c0@bill> <20000522032013.B76442@mooseriver.com>
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*snip* > I general I find it best to have nothing to do with microsoft. I buy none of > their products, I will not work on or support any of their products, and I > will not work for them or any of their subsidiary. I suggest that if you > dislike microsoft, the way they do business and their rotten products, shun > them. If system admin types start refusing to have anything to do with > microsoft and their products then business will have a harder and harder > time finding people to support the microsoft products they have installed > in their environments. Business will also have to pay higher rates for those > admins that are willing to support microsoft products. This may cause > business to take a second and harder look at FreeBSD and Linux. > > > Josef If you start doing silly, stupid crap like that, you are no better than Microsoft or any other butt-sniffing corporate dog. If you choose personally to shun Microsoft (or any company) because you don't like the company, that is obviously your choice; but, to encourage other people to shun another company and/or that company's products to further your own personal agenda, and that of a sister company or organization or organization's product(s), you are offensively attacking the company you are against. Instead of being a bully about business, why not make a better product, or improve one that exists already, market the product, and allow the consumer to decide if they want the Good Stuff or the Bad Stuff. I am personally against using Microsoft products. Although I wrote truly this e-mail using Outlook Express (one of the worst Pieces of Shit ever). I would like to provoke thought from you (all) for once: Think about people who traditionally use Microsoft products. Think of their inteligence, their ability to think reasonably. Are these the people you want using FreeBSD, or any intelligent operating system? Does not it make far more sense to *encourage* these types of people to use Microsoft, or at least something other than that which you and I use? Do you really want these people polluting the FreeBSD user base? Complaining about the *intelligent* things that FreeBSD does? As more of these stupid (excuse me) people start using FreeBSD, and Unix in general, we (the users, developers, everyone) will start to mutate our Good Working Software and Hardware to do stupid things like Windows. Just imagine if Mutt started running scripts automatically by default. What if FreeBSD asked (*gag* choke *puke*) ``Where do you want to go today?'' ? As I start thinking about having to support these stupid people for (Supreme Being, do save us) FreeBSD, I also begin thinking about having my toenails peeled off one by one along with tearing off my flesh layer by layer. If you ever have done Windows technical support, for any field, you know damn well that these people do not belong on FreeBSD. Keep them where they are; avoid them if you choose; but, *DON'T* drag them into my safe, comfortable, intelligent, sensical home. I love FreeBSD, and plan to master it, and use it to do good in this world. Please, I beg you, keep FreeBSD smart. Dan dragged to -chat from -questions. The thread there may continue still. > > -- > Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 4.0 > jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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