Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:03:45 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: re changing from vista Message-ID: <20081116020345.GB15841@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20081115011836.N16077@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <491D59D3.8080809@spansurf.com> <20081114203914.W14337@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <491DDD56.1040001@ccstores.com> <20081114225626.GA56663@icarus.home.lan> <20081115011836.N16077@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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