Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:27:17 -0800 (PST) From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows Refund Day Press Reports: Linux, Linux, Linux Message-ID: <199902161927.LAA19106@kithrup.com> In-Reply-To: <22294.919189684.kithrup.freebsd.chat@zippy.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:49:24 MST." <4.1.19990216094823.0410d990@mail.lariat.org>
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In article <22294.919189684.kithrup.freebsd.chat@zippy.cdrom.com> you write: >I wish people would stop looking at this so one-dimensionally. The >function of these events is not JUST to stoke the press, though that's >always nice, but to also meet some of your fellow geeks and plant the >seed that maybe Linux isn't the only game in town and there are others >who feel just as passionately about a different solution. Indeed. In today's San Jose Mercuery News article about the event, the phrase was "Linux and FreeBSD, a Unix like operating system." In the article, and in the caption for a photograph. Jordan used to say this; I don't know if he still believes it: Linux is not "the enemy," Microsoft is "the enemy," and every user who moves from Windows to Linux is a win for us, because it gets them going in the right direction. (Okay, that's paraphrased, my memory is good but not good enough to quote him directly.) Whatever Brett says, do the opposite. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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