Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 00:47:23 -0400 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux on college radio show. Message-ID: <37900ADB.6CA2BD98@confusion.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907161210090.40409-100000@unix1.digital-web.net> <379008F4.1131C4B2@newsguy.com>
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I'm wondering if we can get a transcript of this, since my net
connection is just terrible right now and i've taken about 12 minutes to
get the first 2 of the show. If anyone knows of a transcript please
point me in the right direction.
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
>
> Joseph Scott wrote:
> >
> > As I'm sure many people will point out, the linux guy sure did
> > come down on FreeBSD pretty hard at times.
>
> At one point, he spent a good amount of time bashing BSD, and then
> said "that does not answer your question, ..." and then proceeded
> *not* to answer the question again!
>
> > To the interviewer's credit I think he did an excellent job of not
> > falling into an OS bashing mode. After hearing the linux guy I was
> > concerned that the interviewer was going to expect Jordan to answer these
> > issues that were brought up, to be put on the defensive. However I don't
> > think he did, as far as the interviewer is concerned I think it was a very
> > fair interview.
>
> I was concerned that might happen too. Kudos for both interviewer
> and Jordan not to fall in this trap. The Linux guy kept trying to
> weasel out of the questions, while Jordan answered them
> straight-forward.
>
> > If anything it made the guy from VA Linux look bad because out of
> > the three people ( Linux, FreeBSD, and the interviewer ), the linux guy
> > was the only one who spent large amounts of timing bashing. ( Of course
> > NT bashing is open to all :-)
>
> I think that anyone not biased would end up seeing FreeBSD on a
> better light, for the sole reason that
> Jordan was more, err, likable. :-) But, then again, I'm biased. I'd
> really like to hear what unbiased people thought...
>
> Hey, can we slashdot this? Or was it slashdotted already? (And, if
> so, what's the link?)
>
> I have had things accepted to slashdot before, so I think I can
> _succesfully_ submit it. :-) Just send the link again if anyone is
> interested.
>
> --
> Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
> dcs@newsguy.com
> dcs@freebsd.org
>
> "Would you like to go out with me?"
> "I'd love to."
> "Oh, well, n... err... would you?... ahh... huh... what do I do
> next?"
>
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