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Subject: Re: re changing from vista
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:21:04AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> >
> ><opinion>
> >But why are we interested in "converting" people?  That borders on
> >religious, which an operating system should not be.
> 
> exactly.
> 
> it's a good idea to tell people about trying FreeBSD if they are already 
> using some flavor of unix.
> 
> One can be "converted" from Solaris to FreeBSD, from NetBSD to OpenBSD, 
> and (sometimes) from linux to FreeBSD.
> 
> But not from Windows.

Come on, lose your thickness and let the guy be free from Vista.
Tha is his purpose - not a religious conversion.
He wants to use the computer, but not be stuck with certain Northwest
USA environments.    So, let him learn a meaningful server environment.

Quit niggling about things not part of the situation just because you
have some prejudices.

////jerry

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