Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:37:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, crh@outpost.co.nz Subject: Re: Jordan the Confused (Was: Jordan The Evil!) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904231335070.24677-100000@bytor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199904160212.TAA20973@implode.root.com>
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He sent me 10 CD's at Stevens Tech alone, and he would have sent more had
I not told him I had the facilities to burn more, I agree that people do
not know what goes on behind the scenes and that the criticism of onmgoing
efforts has to stop, FreeBSD is at its highest point in user base and in
advocacy than it has ever been as far as I can see, so who thinks things
are going bad?
Abu FreeBSD! Abu Hubbard!
-Pat
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Greenman wrote:
> >> There's a lot that's good about engendering that type of advocacy.
> >> UNIX itself owes its success largely to its introduction into
> >> academia early on.
> >>
> >> Jordan, however, deplores that type of advocacy and says he will,
> >> in fact, discourage it.
> >
> >Ahh, no, I doubt that, I don't think Jordan (yeesh, I'd be getting sick of
> >having words put in my mouth by now if I where him 8-) is going to discourage
> >the installation of FreeBSD in acadaemia..
>
> Jordan (via WC CDROM) has given thousands of FreeBSD CDROMs to academia,
> and many of us have worked hard to get FreeBSD into the coursework at
> various universities. It's really offensive to read accusations of complacency
> (or worse) about what we've done in this area.
> I can't help but wonder if Brett (and others) have any idea what goes
> on behind the scenes, especially when it comes to Jordan's FreeBSD promotion
> efforts. Based on what I've been reading the last couple of days, it's clear
> that there is a tremendous under-appreciation or total ignorance about it.
>
> -DG
>
> David Greenman
> Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
> Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com
>
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