Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:41:06 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and memetics Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990419214106.00925800@mail.bfm.org> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990419171213.03ed5730@localhost> References: <199904191711.MAA26033@hostigos.otherwhen.com> <4.2.0.32.19990419093753.0454e490@localhost> <19990418080429.A37740@holly.dyndns.org>
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At 18:47 19-04-1999 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: >Mike Avery has raised many good points here. > >>If you compare OS's to religous movements (5), religous movements >>rarely rely on a single way of getting converts. Even churches work >>hard and in varied ways to get visitors through the door, and to keep >>them in the fold after that. Advertisements, special programs, >>personal testimony, booths at fairs, billboards, television programs, >>courting the news media for coverage all have their place. And none >>of them are enough by themselves. Guess what, I had to chuckle when I saw that. The fact is that the world's largest religion (as far as number of members goes), namely Buddhism, does not seek converts. Never did either. Never faught in religious wars. Its founder was reluctant to teach his disciples. Even to this day, when someone wants to convert to Buddhism, monks question his reasons and try to find out if there was a way for him to stay in his old religion, and only if there is no other way do they say OK, good idea. And the Buddha himself predicted that within 500 years of his time no one would even remember him or his teachings. That was 2500 years ago. I personally like the fact that no FreeBSD evangelists knock on my doors. I am also very happy that I discovered FreeBSD. I installed it originally on a 50 Meg partition I cut out of my 1 Gig Windows hard disk. I did that only because the host of my web site (pair Networks) uses FreeBSD, and I wanted to be able to develop my CGI programs without having to ftp and telnet to them everytime I changed something. Well, by now, my FreeBSD uses 8 Gig of disk space, and Windows only 3, of which 2 are shared with FreeBSD anyway. I also spend most of my time in FreeBSD now. I go to Windows mostly to read and write my email since I have years of messages stored in Eudora and do not want to lose continuity. Please do not underestimate the intelligence of the people. They will come just as I have come. There is nothing more powerful than the feeling that one has discovered something worth its while on one's own. Adam --- Want to design your own web counter? Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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