Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 08:45:01 -0500 From: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Guess we've lost the server market too...? Message-ID: <19990303084501.A27440@oitunix.oit.umass.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990303025641.03ef9ba0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 03:01:41AM -0700 References: <4.1.19990302210116.009fe670@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903030103480.687-100000@thelab.hub.org> <4.1.19990303025641.03ef9ba0@localhost>
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On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 03:01:41AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 01:04 AM 3/3/99 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > OK, I'm traveling this week, so I'll need to outline this in > several steps. > > The first thing is to form several teams out of those who are > active on these lists. Here are the four I envision. (Each > will appeal to certain personality types, as you'll see.) > > 1) The Raving Loonies. This is the fun one. You get to go > totally over the top on public forums, starting flame wars, > bashing and baiting the competition. Think "Team OS/2," but > even more out of control. The more fuss this "lunatic fringe" > makes, the better. The purpose of this group is really not to > sell the product but merely to draw attention to it; after that, > the next group takes over. So, it needs to be the most slavering, > slobbering, fanatical, over-the-top kind of "advocacy" -- > advocacy which sometimes backfires but GETS ATTENTION. Asbestos > underwear required to endure flames. > I don't see how it can ever be good to become associated with assholes and morons. You have this one backwards. You need loyal FreeBSD people to pose as Linux and Microsoft supporters. These people can appear at software related events all over the country, always drunk, always rude, constantly urinating in public. They should especially target FreeeBSD. Is Jordan willing to be peed on for the cause? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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