Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 13:11:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <rfotescu@idsrom.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Linus Torvalds - Chris Donohue (MSNBC) Tue Feb 9 17:37:29 Message-ID: <19990724131139.P84734@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <73468.932787161@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 08:32:41PM -0700 References: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C15404F@id-bucharest.idsrom.com> <73468.932787161@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Friday, 23 July 1999 at 20:32:41 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> [How should we treat the following proof of LACK of fair play from >> Linus?] >> >>> Host Chris_MSNBC says: >>> Josh Bell: What do you think about the BSD project that is now starting >>> to get more and more support, do you think it will take Linux's hype away, >>> once more and more people learn about the free distributions of BSD? >>> >>> Host Linus_Torvalds- says: >>> I actually think that they have been going away instead of actually making >>> a comeback. And I think they were interesting projects. > > Ignore it. You can only get muddy by playing in the same mud puddle > and I don't think that slamming Linux back is the way to gain > converts. Let Linus say all he likes about "BSD going away" and we'll > continue to convert Linux people to FreeBSD at a significant rate, > just as we always have. Maybe he'll wake up someday to find that our > "dead" project has converted the majority of his former adherents. :-) In fact, I think Linus meant it seriously when he said that. On the whole, he's not given to inflammatory statements. I think this shows more of his perspective rather than any fervent hope. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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