From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 23 15:30:30 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 7DAAD37B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:30:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30BE443E4A for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:30:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0259.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.4] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18FjjH-00040L-00; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:30:27 -0800 Message-ID: <3DE00F41.D5D828E9@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:29:05 -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: <3DDF7691.22726.4FCB4F2@localhost> <02dc01c29338$320168c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DDFF5A3.10708@mtbiker.net> <02ed01c2933c$e2b7c390$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: > John writes: > > Look, dude, why don't you go and start > > microsoft-windowsxp-advocacy somewhere else. > > I'm curious: How do you hope to win new converts to FreeBSD if you cannot > tolerate anyone who isn't already converted? If you kill everyone who is not a FreeBSD user, all you have left is FreeBSD users. Then you win. 8-) 8-). > Not hard at all. But the list is dedicated to advocacy, not the status quo, It's dedicated to advocacy of FreeBSD. Feel free to advocate FreeBSD. If you feel the need to advocate Windows, go elsewhere. > > Actually, I invite you to try Mac OS X. > > Windows already does everything that I require, and nowadays I don't play > with computers for their own sakes unless I'm paid for it. So basically, you are being paid to hang out here. I wonder by whom... not. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message