From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Mar 13 0:45:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 966F314E52 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 00:45:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 1626 invoked from network); 13 Mar 1999 08:45:17 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 13 Mar 1999 08:45:17 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id DAA01236; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 03:45:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903130845.DAA01236@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: O'Reilly article: Whence the Source: Untangling the OpenSource/Free Software Debate In-Reply-To: <36EA0074.5E19C267@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "Mar 12, 99 11:06:44 pm" To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 03:45:15 -0500 (EST) Cc: brett@lariat.org, tlambert@primenet.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters said: > > Guy Kawasaki was simply the James Carville of the computer industry. > Both remind me of a small dog that won't stop barking. > Even though Carville is a parody of himself, the biggest problem with Carville is the product that he is pushing. His total lack of credibility isn't due to his irritating style, but the advocacy positions that he takes. If Carville was pushing a good product, he would be just a silly and entertaining eccentric taking up valuable air time. Since he appears to be pushing a sadly defective and somewhat malicious product, then he appears (to me) to be a silly, foolish, irritating, and "borderline" eccentric. It really doesn't make any sense to compare Carville advocating Clinton with XXX advocating FreeBSD. There is absolutely no basis to compare those two situations. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message