Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:07:46 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Nocturne <dpilgrim@uswest.net> Cc: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm not quite sure what to think of this... Message-ID: <353.921733666@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:57:20 PST." <36F087B0.CBBA9E60@uswest.net>
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> Also this quote from JKH:
>
> "...FreeBSD, based on 15y+ old code written by a bunch of people is
> certainly as sexy as Linux, which was written from scratch, originally
> by one guy."
>
> Jordan, is this a misquote?
It's definitely a misquote of some sort. For one thing, I would have
said "is not as sexy" since it doesn't make sense the way it's phrased
(the analogy conflicts with the purpose of the sentence :).
I'm also not sure if that's "exactly" what I said, but I've made the
comment more than once that one of the reasons the press doesn't talk
to us is because we're a bunch of "old men" working on an "old
operating system", not some young and sexy OS newcomer with a nice
Cinderella story behind him ("young Finnish computer science student
conquers world" - the press just eats that up). Given than, I'm
sure it's close enough to what I said or meant and we just need to
throw a "not" in there at the right place to make the quote parse.
- Jordan
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