Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 23:27:52 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: brian@pobox.com Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a pr Message-ID: <199908070627.XAA17920@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Aug 1999 22:54:08 PDT." <19990807055408.22509.rocketmail@web1005.mail.yahoo.com>
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>c) All I asked for from you was an indication that help would be >welcome in this area - that I wouldn't incur more attacks for >putting forth an offer. Instead, I get more knee-jerk responses >from you - this sure looks like a canned response, not a >reaction to this particular thread. "Ah. It's a >Chucky/Daemon/Beastie thread. Personal insult, cast aspersions." > >If you're going to make this so incredibly hard because you're >so incredibly busy that you haven't time to be civil, why the >hell haven't you delegated the task to someone more able to deal >with people? I've been watching this thread and cringed a little when I read Jordan's first reply. It was pretty clear that it wouldn't be taken well, but it was understandable when you know the history. We really have had numerous people complain about things at length, but nothing ever seems to come of it, except to denigrate the work that others have done. Keep in mind that Jordan and others have been out in front doing the marketing and developing the product for many years and your complaints are viewed by him as attacks and insults against the work he's done. So unless you can put something forward and say "Here, this is better!", then everything you're complaining about sounds like just another off the cuff complaint from the Peanut Gallery. It doesn't matter that you might be one of the world's foremost marketing geniuses, and in fact it probably makes the situation even worse because your complaints would bite deeper. To give an analogy, walking into someone's house and saying that the furniture and decorations really suck is likely not going to get a positive response from your host. Anyway, please try to keep in mind Jordan's perspective (and all of those who have worked to develop and market the product) and understand that his reaction is going to be very human. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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