From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 21:17:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA27092 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 21:17:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27026; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 21:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fpawlak@execpc.com) Received: from execpc.com (lafra-118.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.86.118]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.8.8) id XAA03041; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 23:17:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from fpawlak@localhost) by execpc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00268; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 23:17:05 -0500 From: "Frank Pawlak" Message-Id: <980409231705.ZM267@execpc.com> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 23:17:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: "John S. Dyson" "Re: Re[2]: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet"" (Apr 9, 10:03pm) References: <199804100303.WAA00452@dyson.iquest.net> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: "John S. Dyson" Subject: Re: Re[2]: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, dshanes@personalogic.com, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Apr 9, 10:03pm, John S. Dyson wrote: > Subject: Re: Re[2]: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the In > > "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > I was told by Eric Raymond (whom I met briefly at the Mozilla party) > > > that the *BSD people were deliberately excluded because there were too > > > many BSDs and they didn't want to get involved in any political issues > > > over it. I find these continuous allegations of the BSD world being > > > gratuitously and needlessly "split" (even though each *BSD seeks to > > > fill a different niche) by the Linux community to be rather tiresome > > > considering the amount of division in their own ranks and can only see > > > this as something of a double standard, but I've long since given up > > > on any hope of fair play from this particular crowd. > > > > > > This and several other incidents of a similar nature has pretty much > > > convinced me that this crowd would rather prefer it if we really > > > didn't exist at all and is going to essentially conduct their > > > operations as if we didn't. Oh well. Perhaps it *IS* time to go on > > > the PR offensive here ("Why Linux doesn't work") since playing nice > > > guys hasn't appeared to have won us anything but lots of nice comments > > > from folks like Marc A. at netscape to the effect that "Linux is the > > > only free OS alternative." I'm getting tired of that, and if it's > > > going to take "breaking ranks" with the rest of the free OS community > > > to get our own message out, maybe it's time. > > > > > > Jordan > > > > Amen!! From what you say, the time appears to have come. There are > > enough of them to eat us alive it we sit on our buts and just observe. > > A kick ass attitude can be a very good thing if things are indeed as you > > say they are. I am no politician, but that appears to be what is going > > on here. In that case the more noise and fsck you the better. Stake > > our ground and strut our stuff. > > Frank > > > Each of 'em seems like a Borg nano-probe :-). (Re: StarTrek Voyager :-)). > > John >-- End of excerpt from John S. Dyson I'll have to have my wife give me a translation of this. She is the StarTrek person in the family. I barely know what a Borg is let alone a nano-probe. Regards, Frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message