From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed May 23 11:16:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AABE337B422 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 11:16:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4NIGAG85742; Wed, 23 May 2001 11:16:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000001c0e351$dfc41680$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:16:13 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: RE: [dn-core] Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders Stand Together" Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org, Brian Raynes , Greg Lehey , Robert Clark Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-May-01 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >:-) There's really only a parallel between Sauron's drive > to totally dominate everything, and Microsoft's drive to > dominate everything. > > Of course, since Tolken's series really caught on in the > late 70's, it's ancient history to the generation today. Now we > have the parallels drawn between Microsoft and The Borg, > otherwise the young pups won't understand the analogy. :-) So since I've read LoTR at least 15 times it means I'm a generational misfit? :) > But if I were to make more of an analogy between LoTR and > OSS, I'd say that the BSD community are the High Elves that > went West, while the Linux community are the Low Elves that > never made the trip. Both worked together and both had their > magic, but the High Elves were obviously much more powerful, > although not as numerous. Now referring to The Simirallion (sp?) is where you will lose people. :) LoTR only touches on the difference between High and Low, whereas TS covers it in greater detail. The rings are probably the markets in the industry being competed over, and the desktop/server market would probably only be the 3 elven rings anyways. I wouldn't say that the desktop market is the One ring. Figuring out the symbolism of the 7 dwarven rings and 9 human rings is left as an exercise to the reader. (bad pun) -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message