Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 18:37:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits <abelits@genesyslab.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980409180750.2504G-100000@es1840.genesyslab.com> In-Reply-To: <3980.892169423@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> I was told by Eric Raymond (whom I met briefly at the Mozilla party)
> that the *BSD people were deliberately excluded because there were too
> many BSDs and they didn't want to get involved in any political issues
> over it. I find these continuous allegations of the BSD world being
> gratuitously and needlessly "split" (even though each *BSD seeks to
> fill a different niche) by the Linux community to be rather tiresome
> considering the amount of division in their own ranks and can only see
> this as something of a double standard, but I've long since given up
> on any hope of fair play from this particular crowd.
While Eric Raymond may know better, I suspect that they were afraid of
being involved in political issues over *BSD _vs._ Linux. That looks way,
way more realistic, evan though still insulting.
> This and several other incidents of a similar nature has pretty much
> convinced me that this crowd would rather prefer it if we really
> didn't exist at all and is going to essentially conduct their
> operations as if we didn't. Oh well. Perhaps it *IS* time to go on
> the PR offensive here ("Why Linux doesn't work") since playing nice
> guys hasn't appeared to have won us anything but lots of nice comments
> from folks like Marc A. at netscape to the effect that "Linux is the
> only free OS alternative." I'm getting tired of that, and if it's
> going to take "breaking ranks" with the rest of the free OS community
> to get our own message out, maybe it's time.
Please, before doing that try to make a list of goals that it is
supposed to accomplish.
--
Alex
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