From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Feb 21 22:22:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC87310FF9 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:22:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16442; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 23:41:03 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd016406; Sun Feb 21 23:40:51 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA22889; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 23:22:09 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902220622.XAA22889@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: linux in New York Times To: dyson@iquest.net Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 06:22:06 +0000 (GMT) Cc: cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us, jackv@earthling.net, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199902220326.WAA23981@y.dyson.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Feb 21, 99 10:26:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] 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 > The fact is: > > The best marketeer wins. Code quality is important, but not nearly > as important as the smoke and mirrors. I have gone so far as to tell a VP of Engineering I was under at the time that the only thing good engineering or user interface is for is repeat sales, and the primary value of any company is its ability to market. Even if I walk on water, as an engineer, it's no good unless someone buys tickets to watch me do it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message