From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Mar 13 14:19: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1037A14DB2 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:18:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07687; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 15:18:15 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36EAE426.B4DE952D@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 15:18:14 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dyson@iquest.net Cc: brett@lariat.org, tlambert@primenet.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O'Reilly article: Whence the Source: Untangling the OpenSource/Free Software Debate References: <199903130845.DAA01236@y.dyson.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "John S. Dyson" wrote: > > 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. OK, I see your point here. Come to think of it, you're right about Carville too. He'd be far less irritating if he were barking about George Bush, Bob Dole, or even Senator Kerry. He'd be the same goofball, but at least he would be a creditable goofball. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message