From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 21 22:26:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA06765 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:26:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hyperreal.org (taz.hyperreal.org [209.133.83.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA06760 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:26:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@hyperreal.org) Received: (qmail 27824 invoked by uid 24); 22 Nov 1998 06:25:35 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19981121222234.03dab530@hyperreal.org> X-Sender: brian@hyperreal.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:25:05 -0800 To: Charlie Schloemer From: Brian Behlendorf Subject: Re: Tell Micro$oft what you think Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:31 AM 11/22/98 -0600, Charlie Schloemer wrote: >Love or hate Microsoft, they're >largely responsible for the the low cost of PC hardware, What? >making their >software accessible and easy for home users. I don't care to ever USE any >of this software in my lifetime, but I enjoy being able to build a killer >system for $1500. FWIW. :-) If Microsoft was into hardware, your "killer" system would cost as much as a car. Widespread competition in a field built upon more-or-less open standards is the only reason why PC hardware is cheap. That and the Asian crisis of course. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- History is made at night; brian@hyperreal.org character is what you are in the dark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message