Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:30:33 -0500 From: markemmanuel <lists@markemmanuel.org> To: FreeBSD advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders StandTogether" Message-ID: <B7346359.33FE%lists@markemmanuel.org> In-Reply-To: <3B0AB396.1F4DC07A@acuson.com>
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Quoted from the Book of David Johnson Ch 6:7-13 on 5/22/01 1:44 PM: > Pardon me for intruding with some pop sociological and political > analysis of the Linux and BSD communities :-) This is all gross > generalization and prone to bad logic. Woohoo!!! I love sociology. I'm in college right now and my minor is sociology and I'm also pursuing a a computer science certificate. > Hackers and geeks are fiercely independent They demand complete control > over their personal domain. Unix is attractive to them because it places > them in control of their computer. Open Source unices are even more > attractive because it offers them even more control. Yep... I have to agree with that. > Individualists tend to fall into two broad political types. One type is > "hermit". They expect all other people to be equally individualistic. [snip] > The other type is "tribal". They group everyone else into the ranks of > "elder", "us" and "them". It is okay to tell lower ranks what to do, and > it is accepted that lower ranks may very well tell the upper ranks to > "shove off". [snip] > Warfare with other tribes is common. > > BSD land is mainly "hermit". It expects the newbie to be able to learn > how to do stuff on his own. Help is available but hand holding is not. > Warfare between the BSD systems is very rare. The BSD license fits > perfectly. "Do whatever you want with the code." BSD users could care > less what system other people use. > > Linuxland is mainly "tribal". There are tribes within tribes, and they > all fight each other to some extent. If a newbie gets snubbed in one > subtribe, they find another. The GPL license fits perfectly. "Contribute > your code back to the tribe". Linux users often take great offense if > some else isn't using the same extact distro. > > Just some random musings... > > David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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