Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 14:45:12 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>, Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, jgrosch@mooseriver.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows Refund Day: Watch out for Linux tactics Message-ID: <19990215144512.B26542@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <19990215140648.A99426@wopr.caltech.edu>; from Matthew Hunt on Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 02:06:49PM -0800 References: <199902132126.NAA14285@athena.tera.com> <199902132126.NAA14285@athena.tera.com> <19990213134206.A10635@mooseriver.com> <4.1.19990214114417.03fa0480@mail.lariat.org> <19990214114602.P22179@orcrist.mediacity.com> <19990215134748.A26542@athena.tera.com> <19990215140648.A99426@wopr.caltech.edu>
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On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 02:06:49PM -0800, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 01:47:48PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > It's exactly these kinds of fractious shoutings > > that keep the *BSD camps in the extreme minority. > > You're attributing our "market share" to people like Brett? It seems > to me that both Microsoft and Linux have supporters who are both > more offensive and more ignorant, and they seem to be doing okay. > > I think the segment of people who have never heard of FreeBSD is a > lot bigger than the segment of people whom Brett has offended. > > I'm sure that the FreeBSD Project is not so fragile that it can be > destroyed by a single vocal supporter. > I think we've got to have more unity--more cooperation-- among the 3 flavors of BSD before the great majority of BSD users will be other than geeks and nerds. I also believe that Linux is billions of times better than DOS/Lose, and that FBSD is better than Linux. But my personal biases are beside the point. At issue is a display of unity in the Free-unix|open-source movement against M$. People need to chill... gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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