Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 18:07:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joseph A. Mallett" <jmallett@xMach.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: The desktop apathy? I think not. Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.33.0105311805280.5552-100000@Aphex.NewGold.NET> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010531160004.04a02910@localhost>
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On Thu, 31 May 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 03:56 PM 5/31/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > >That's more idiotic than Brett's usual treacle. > > Red alert! Incoming ad hominem attack detected! You might be interested to know that RMS' comments about you show up in a Google search for your name. Funny stuff, really, since he sounds so... pathetic? > > >HP isn't a software company, it's a hardware company. > > Gee, I guess that HP/UX and MPE aren't software. Nor is > the embedded code that makes so many of their products > tick. The software bundles that came with a new HP box I've seen recently is even bigger than most SGI bundles. In short: Shitloads of software. Lest not ye forget HP LVM stuff. > > >GPL software doesn't > >kill technically superior products the way MS does. > > Not so. GCC has killed many technically superior compilers. I rather like TenDRA > > --Brett Glass > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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