From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 21:24:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA29948 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 21:24:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [129.72.251.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA29942; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 21:24:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA09598; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 22:24:09 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199804100424.WAA09598@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 22:23:54 -0600 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , "David Shanes" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3980.892169423@time.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:50 PM 4/9/98 -0700, 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. This is a lame excuse. The various *BSD groups are far more well disposed toward one another than, say, Larry Wall and his "Artistic License" crowd is toward the Linux zealots. >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. I sure think it's time. Free software is on the ascendent; it's now or never. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message