From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 16 16:14:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ECB314F49 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:14:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11nsjh-000BNW-00; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:14:09 +0000 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:14:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: David Schwartz Cc: David Scheidt , Erick White , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" In-Reply-To: <000001bf308e$b39f8b10$021d85d1@youwant.to> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org How about this, then. We all stand idly by while Bill Gates makes billions by making it necessary to upgrade regularly to enjoy the latest benefits of technology. Then, we will also allow him and his company to shut down competition so we really won't have any viable alternatives. Then, when the next big revolution occurs, a bunch of grunts will provide us with Microsoft Linux as the new standard. Unfortunately, Gates will say, older M$ applications will not run on the new platform, so windows owners will need to upgrade.... all he needs now is to offer Linus Torvalds a job, and he'll be all set. And the hardware/software rat-race will continue. Sounds wonderful. Let's just make sure that FreeBSD stays strong, so those of us on the lunatic fringe can stand our ground. -jonathon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message