Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:25:20 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, fpawlak@execpc.com, kline@tera.tera.com, freebsd@atipa.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Enough already! Message-ID: <199805211625.JAA23301@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 08:26:30 PDT." <19980521082629.B25066@mooseriver.com>
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> What is really pissing me off about this entire thread is all of you have > missed the fact this this is a golden opportunity to advance FreeBSD. In case > you have not noticed, FreeBSD is in microsoft's cross-hairs. I strongly agree with Joseph here . The DOJ and Distric Attornies are opening a window of opportunity for alternative solutions . I think that the DOJ should spell it out to the FreeBSD , linux , Be or any other OS . In fact let me try to spell it out : T.h.i.s i.s y.o.u.r g.o.l.d.e.n o.p.p.o.r.t.u.n.i.t.y G.o. f.o.r. i.t. . F.o.r. I d.o.n.'t k.n.o.w h.o.w l.o.n.g w.i.l.l I b.e a.b.l.e t.o h.o.l.d o.f.f M.i.c.r.o.s.o.f.t > > At the last BAFUG meeting I had a conversation with the head tech person at > a large ISP here in the bay area know for it's use of FreeBSD. He told me > the story of how microsoft was putting serious pressure on ISPs to drop > Unix in general and switch to NT. microsoft was at the same time going > behind this ISP's back and telling their suppliers and major customers that > this ISP was switching to NT and when were they (the customer) going to > switch to NT. microsoft was then telling this large ISP that all of the > ISP's customers were switching to NT and the customers wanted to know when > was the ISP going to switch. I have heard this from other people and other > ISPs. > For starters , any large FreeBSD ISP who is approached by microsoft with bullshit lines like above should forward a complain to the DOJ or to a Friendly District Attorney for your local District Attoney may be siding with Microsoft. Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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