Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:41:52 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Treading on toes (was: O'Reilly article: Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate) Message-ID: <19990312124152.Y490@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990311140839.00b25250@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 02:15:16PM -0700 References: <Your <4.1.19990311093845.00989ee0@localhost> <4352.921186024@zippy.cdrom.com> <4.1.19990311140839.00b25250@localhost>
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On Thursday, 11 March 1999 at 14:15:16 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 01:00 PM 3/11/99 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >> I think we're still looking for a marketing person who doesn't manage >> to offend quite so many people, to absolutely frank about it. > > The only people I seem to have offended were those whose toes I've > stepped on unknowingly Well, step on people's toes once, and a reasonable person will forgive you. Do it again, and they'll think you're clumsy. But when they go to a lot of trouble to explain the situation, and you don't listen and carry on stepping on their toes, they tend to avoid you. > or people who identify anyone with whom they do not agree as an > enemy. I don't know if it's possible to avoid those kinds of slights > and still be able to take a stand about anything at all! That could be a valid statement, though of course it's got to be subjective. Many people take stands, but not many have caused as much offense as you have. > I didn't say that I wanted to be the spokesman -- just a coordinator > and/or an active member/leader of one or more of the teams. I'd be glad > to push toward the podium some spokesman other than me who seem to be > able to turn away wrath more effectively. I think that there are enough people who are saying "Brett, stop talking and do something" to make this a necessity. But remember that word "team". You'd have to accept the fact that the goals of the team wouldn't be your own personal goals (for example, I think that attacking the GPL right now would be a Bad Thing). 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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