Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 15:25:33 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows Refund Day: Watch out for Linux tactics Message-ID: <4.1.19990214151559.00b22da0@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <19990214135704.A13436@mooseriver.com> References: <4.1.19990214114417.03fa0480@mail.lariat.org> <199902132126.NAA14285@athena.tera.com> <199902132126.NAA14285@athena.tera.com> <19990213134206.A10635@mooseriver.com> <4.1.19990214114417.03fa0480@mail.lariat.org>
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At 01:57 PM 2/14/99 -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: >No, brett this is not the case. I was interviewed by the San Jose Mercury >News and the reporter told me that all the Linux people he interviewed took >great pains to point out that there were other OSS beside Linux. They >emphasized that Linux is equal to FreeBSD in most ways and FreeBSD was >better in a good number of ways. I hope that this is the case. It doesn't seem to be the case with the group that's organizing the Bay Area event, though. >The BeOs people have be asked >by Rick Moen a number of time to attend. They just can't seem to get their >act together. They shouldn't need to get a separate "act" together. This is an unnecessary hurdle which Rick is imposing -- apparently in an attempt to get them to bugger off. >I have been running BAFUG for 2 years now (April in our 2nd anniversary) and >Nicole Harrington and I have been doing the Install-A-Thons for almost a >year now. I have never seen you at either the BAFUG meetings or the >Install-A-Thons. That's because I jet in and out of the Bay Area on business (I live in Wyoming). Since I found out you existed (about 2 months ago), I haven't had an opportunity to attend any of our events. >The truth of the matter is that here in the Bay Area the Linux and FreeBSD >camps work together based on the theory that "The enemy of my enemy is my >friend". It sure doesn't appear that way. I've been at a number of Bay Area events at which the Linuxoids have bashed the BSDs at great length. >You, on the other hand, are an ideologue and a zealot. Nope, you might say I'm an ANTI-ideologue and an ANTI-zealot. I see Linux zealots trashing the BSDs and pushing the GPL -- which is destructive, anti-business, and anti-choice -- at the expense of those of us who'd like to have a choice. I have therefore spoken out about the problem. >Let me ask you, are you running a users group in your area? Are you >running Install-A-Thons? Yes and yes. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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