Damien Fleuriot <m...@my.gd> wrote: > > On 6 Jun 2012, at 21:52, Dave U. Random <anonym...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net> > wrote: > > > Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >>> Having to pay Verisign instead of Microsoft makes no difference: the > >>> point is why should I have to pay anything to a third party in order to > >>> run whatever OS I want on a piece of hardware I own? > > > > It's time to dump the Intel/Microshaft mafia forever. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, > > NetBSD, and even Linux have ports to many platforms. Why stay on Intel? It's > > an overgrown ugly mess. > > > > We need to stop buying Intel mafiaware with preinstalled Microshaft mafiware > > and run a free (or in the case of Linux "apparently free") OS on free > > hardware. > > > > There are increasing numbers of SBCs and plenty of used servers on > > Ebay. They're all built better than commodity Intel mafiaware. Good > > riddance! > > > > You have no idea what you're talking about.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Does that count? > This kind of religious propaganda post is neither constructive nor > helpful. But your expansive and well-reasoned "rebuttal" is? Is mafiaware a religious issue? I thought it was common sense. Thanks for your half-assed attempt to marginalize it. I don't think you were successful. If at first... > I don't trust AMD with my servers' CPUs, not since many years ago when > they had all these overheating problems. I don't really care about that. But I'm sure you feel better after getting it off your chest. Still, that doesn't have to do with two major corporations conspiring to butt-fuck the consumer. At most it involved one company. So, for now, this is more important than what you wanted to talk about. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"