Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:41:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Cc: brett@lariat.org, kline@tera.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows Refund Day: Watch out for Linux tactics Message-ID: <199902150742.AAA10571@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990214135704.A13436@mooseriver.com> from "Josef Grosch" at Feb 14, 99 01:57:04 pm
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> What are you doing to promote FreeBSD beside pissing and moaning? All > you are managing to do is to get youself enshrined in peoples kill > filters. Brett is a typical journalist. The only difference is, he's *FreeBSD's* journalist. Brett has done many published articles about FreeBSD. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Brett has been a strong FreeBSD evangelist, and while you may not agree with everything (or even anything) that he says under the influence of evnagelical fervor, FreeBSD needs evangelists. > Brett, If you don't have something positive to contribute please have the > good grace to bugger off. I think if the only thing he has done in this thread is rile up FreeBSD'ers, who were going to give the day a miss, into going and "showing the colors", then he's done his evangelical best for FreeBSD. Brett is contributing what he can. Not everyone is a kernel hacker; I think the KDE thread (on advocacy? chat?) recognizes this fact. To (probably mis-) quote SEF: The free software community has finally found a geek who thinks writing applications are cool. God help us all. Or to coin one from me: FreeBSD: Not just for kernel hackers any more Or to coin another one: FreeBSD: Not just the power to serve I personnally am very happy FreeBSD is starting to get people other than kernel geeks (like me) involved. Now if only we could find a lot of people who thought writing articles, books, and documentation was a cool thing to do on the weekend. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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