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Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy?
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 05:21:58 +0100
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Terry writes:

> Anthony is pretty much here (and on -chat) as a
> Microsoft appologist and advocate.

That is your opinion, and not an established fact.

> Basically, it's OK for FreeBSD to be anywhere
> Microsoft doesn't currently want, but if you try
> and push it somewhere they've peed (or Apple tries
> to push it in one of those places), then it's
> "obviously ill suited, and can never be made
> to work" (paraphrasing).

Who are you paraphrasing?  I don't believe Microsoft has made any statements
either way about FreeBSD.  No flavor of UNIX has any significant share of
the desktop market; in fact, all flavors of UNIX put together do not have a
significant share of that market.




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