From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 14 23:42:23 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA19647 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 23:42:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA19642 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 23:42:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA03790; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:42:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd003777; Mon Feb 15 00:42:20 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA10571; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:42:12 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902150742.AAA10571@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Windows Refund Day: Watch out for Linux tactics To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:41:57 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org, kline@tera.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990214135704.A13436@mooseriver.com> from "Josef Grosch" at Feb 14, 99 01:57:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > What are you doing to promote FreeBSD beside pissing and moaning? All > you are managing to do is to get youself enshrined in peoples kill > filters. Brett is a typical journalist. The only difference is, he's *FreeBSD's* journalist. Brett has done many published articles about FreeBSD. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Brett has been a strong FreeBSD evangelist, and while you may not agree with everything (or even anything) that he says under the influence of evnagelical fervor, FreeBSD needs evangelists. > Brett, If you don't have something positive to contribute please have the > good grace to bugger off. I think if the only thing he has done in this thread is rile up FreeBSD'ers, who were going to give the day a miss, into going and "showing the colors", then he's done his evangelical best for FreeBSD. Brett is contributing what he can. Not everyone is a kernel hacker; I think the KDE thread (on advocacy? chat?) recognizes this fact. To (probably mis-) quote SEF: The free software community has finally found a geek who thinks writing applications are cool. God help us all. Or to coin one from me: FreeBSD: Not just for kernel hackers any more Or to coin another one: FreeBSD: Not just the power to serve I personnally am very happy FreeBSD is starting to get people other than kernel geeks (like me) involved. Now if only we could find a lot of people who thought writing articles, books, and documentation was a cool thing to do on the weekend. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message