Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 03:38:23 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <3DDF68AF.E5F94C90@mindspring.com> References: <20021121161453.GA69019_submonkey.net@ns.sol.net> <008501c2917a$ac643080$0a00000a_atkielski.com@ns.sol.net> <200211221502.gAMF2a6a089963@catflap.bishopston.net> <20021122234047.GB60785@wantadilla.lemis.com> <014201c29296$f9cc4a20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20021123071534.GC39240@wantadilla.lemis.com> <01e101c292c8$1aa8cda0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DDF47C6.88FE04BF@mindspring.com> <021c01c292d9$1dd01590$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DDF5ADF.21BC5B31@mindspring.com> <024801c292e3$824f45e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Terry writes: > > Except UNIX in general, and FreeBSD in particular, > > it seems. > > No, not even those. An unwillingness to mindlessly endorse FreeBSD or UNIX > for every conceivable use under the sun is not synonymous with bashing; in > fact, it isn't even close. Earlier you stated, in a post to the list, in response to a post by Greg Lehey (though you made this difficult to discern, by altering mail headers unnecesarily): Part of rational advocacy is recognizing the strengths AND the weaknesses of one's favored OS. What you neglected to state was: And then playing up the strengths, while playing down and/or providing workarounds for the weaknesses. You seem intolerant of the idea of "an advocate", as in "someone who advocates", as opposed to "somone who only advocates under specific conditions which Anthony decides upon". I don't understan the idea of a "conditional advocate"; it seems to me that this would be similar to someone who cheers for their favorite baseball team, except when they are playing teams from the West Coast, becuse they are supposed to realize that they should "bend over and take it like a man" when their team plays a West Coast team. Advocacy doesn't work like that: it's "all or nothing". A Cubs fan is a Cubs fan, and comes out and yels for their team, even if they *know* that their team is going to get creamed. I think what you are describing isn't "advocacy", it's "consulting". Maybe you would have better luck selling this idea, if you were posting on the "freebsd-consulting" mailing list? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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