From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 5 09:52:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA26553 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 5 May 1996 09:52:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tarsier.cv.nrao.edu (root@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA26547 for ; Sun, 5 May 1996 09:52:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from juphoff@localhost) by tarsier.cv.nrao.edu (8.6.13/$Revision: 2.7 $) id LAA07331; Sat, 4 May 1996 11:01:02 -0400 Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 11:01:02 -0400 Message-Id: <199605041501.LAA07331@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu> From: Jeff Uphoff To: Ollivier Robert Cc: chat@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Chat Mailing List), mmead@glock.com Subject: Re: [Forwarded e-mail from Alexander O. Yuriev] In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, May 4, 1996 01:47:30 +0200 References: <199605032141.RAA04616@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu> <199605032347.BAA15351@keltia.freenix.fr> X-Spook: Special Forces unmarked bills class struggle X-Mailer: VM 5.95 (beta); GNU Emacs 19.29.1 X-Attribution: Up Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "OR" == Ollivier Robert writes: OR> It seems that Jeff Uphoff said: >> Whereas the little horned fellow wearing sneakers and carrying a cattle >> prod is serious? OR> Come on, even Linus himself admitted at a time he was a bit jealous OR> of our oh so cute mascot :-) I do seem to recall someone saying that he thought Linus was cuter though. (Wait...maybe the comparison was with Bill Gates and not the FreeBSDaemon...damn this early-age senility!) OR> What is silly in the other idea is having the penguin (or whatever OR> logo they want to take) knocking down Chuck. It is definitely the OR> spirit no one among Linuxers & BSDers should have. I know...I mailed a copy of it to Matt Mead--we good-naturedly pick on each other a fair bit about Linux & FreeBSD--and then he went and sent it to a FreeBSD mailing list. Bad Matt! Bad! (Then again, the message originally appeared on the linux-kernel list so it's not like it was a "secret" or anything....) OR> We -- FreeBSD and Linux -- are competitors but not enemies. That's OR> something I've never able to understand: raving Linux OR> fanatics. There are also BSD raving fanatics of course but as there OR> are more Linux fans, there are more fanatics too. True. *sigh* Sometimes I think the Linux community has gotten a bit big for my tastes now. (I especially feel this way when I look at the size of my security mailing lists for Linux. *Way* too big....) --Up. -- Jeff Uphoff - systems/network admin. | juphoff@nrao.edu National Radio Astronomy Observatory | juphoff@bofh.org.uk Charlottesville, VA, USA | jeff.uphoff@linux.org PGP key available at: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~juphoff/