From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Feb 12 15:24:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 387D437B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:24:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1CNNrs13789; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:23:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: Ted Mittelstaedt X-Authentication-Warning: mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com: nobody set sender to tedm@toybox.placo.com using -f To: David Johnson Subject: Re: Hello -*Sue*- Message-ID: <982020232.3a887088ccc7b@mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:23:52 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: <001801c0932d$94384160$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <5763641421.20010210101951@home.com> <20010210220757.K19976@welearn.com.au> <942176599.20010210194833@home.com> <3A88221E.F0427FD1@acuson.com> In-Reply-To: <3A88221E.F0427FD1@acuson.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.3 X-Originating-IP: 205.139.102.133 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoting David Johnson : > Y wrote: > > > > You'd be still using Multics if it were > > not for two men who broke some rules and had fun. > > What rules? And what authority instituted them? > > I wasn't computing thirty years ago, so I can't comment on the actions > of AT&T. But I am around today using FreeBSD and Linux. Am I being a > rebel for doing so? No! No! No! There are no rules telling you what OS > you can use. Not thirty years ago. Not now. And Hell will freeze over > before it happens in the future. > Ahhhh - the other OS's have to exist before you can use them. Thirty years ago things were a lot different.... Ted To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message