From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 23 2:53:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395E837B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 02:53:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54AE43EA9 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 02:53:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0024.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.24] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18FXuo-0004YV-00; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 02:53:35 -0800 Message-ID: <3DDF5ADF.21BC5B31@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 02:39:27 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) References: <20021121161453.GA69019_submonkey.net@ns.sol.net> <008501c2917a$ac643080$0a00000a_atkielski.com@ns.sol.net> <200211221502.gAMF2a6a089963@catflap.bishopston.net> <20021122234047.GB60785@wantadilla.lemis.com> <014201c29296$f9cc4a20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20021123071534.GC39240@wantadilla.lemis.com> <01e101c292c8$1aa8cda0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DDF47C6.88FE04BF@mindspring.com> <021c01c292d9$1dd01590$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Terry writes: > > Given that Microsoft is a monopoly, how can > > you tell the difference between "what the > > market wants" and "what the market is forced > > to use by virtue of an illegal leveraging > > of monopoly powers"? > > I'm not interested in rabid bashing of Microsoft or any other vendor or > product. Sorry. Except UNIX in general, and FreeBSD in particular, it seems. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message