From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 29 7: 5:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (srv1.thuntek.net [206.206.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CBD214E67 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 07:05:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwilde1@thuntek.net) Received: from thuntek.net (abq-027.thuntek.net [207.66.52.27]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.9.1/8.6.12TNT1.0) with ESMTP id IAA23472; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:04:41 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36FF9605.275D22C4@thuntek.net> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:02:29 -0700 From: Donald Wilde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Price Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone want ESR's job? :) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Steve Price wrote: > > http://www.netaxs.com/~esr/writings/take-my-job-please.html > I think we'll be helping to spread the load with my new commitment. The time is past for there to be ONE Richard Stallman or Eric Raymond who speaks for us. We are a community of many interests, and it will improve our standing in the real-world perception for there to be several of us who cannot be knocked down and blown away. This will just lead to a showcasing of our benefits vs. theirs, and we will _all_ come out ahead of the game through the visibility. The losers will be the dinosaurs. I also ask you to note the downsides of the job that he speaks of. They are real, and I ask you to cut _all_ of us the slack we need to survive, especially as I grow into the job. We have all benefited from RS's years of effort with GNU _and_ from the rise in market perception that ESR has orchestrated. We have felt the frustration of trying to get ESR to mention FreeBSD with Linux. Now, the BSD-licensed software -- and I intend to speak up for ALL, from Apache to XFree86 -- will have its own visible advocate. -- Donald Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message