Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 22:32:23 -0800 From: Marc Merlin <marc_news@merlins.org> To: Nocturne <dpilgrim@uswest.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm not quite sure what to think of this... Message-ID: <19990317223223.A29531@merlins.org> In-Reply-To: <387.921733855@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 09:10:55PM -0800 References: <387.921733855@zippy.cdrom.com>
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You can think of this that I'm a big bonehead :-( On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 09:10:55PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Also this quote from JKH: > > > > "...FreeBSD, based on 15y+ old code written by a bunch of people is > > certainly as sexy as Linux, which was written from scratch, originally > > by one guy." > > > > Jordan, is this a misquote? > > It's definitely a misquote of some sort. For one thing, I would have > said "is not as sexy" since it doesn't make sense the way it's phrased > (the analogy conflicts with the purpose of the sentence :). As the author of the http://marc.merlins.org/linux/lwce_winter99/Day2/Showfloor.html#Freebsd page, I'd like to apologize to everyone. This is obviously a misquote (I hope most people corrected in their mind when they read this). That's what you get for trying to do too much in too little time, with not sleep :-( Yes, the quote (from memory) was "is certainly _not_ as sexy as Linux". Jordan may also have said 25 years instead of 15 years, but I prefered to be safe and put 15y+ since either way the point remains the same. I started by adding the "not" and ended up rewording the whole sentence to make it closer to what Jordan said (yeah, I'm not a journalist, and I was just casually talking with him so I didn't exactly have a notepad with me to take notes as I wasn't interviewing him in the first place. It's only later that I thought I should put a few good words for FreeBSD in my page) Once again, I'm really sorry for the mess-up. My goal was obviously to help you guys and entice more linux people to take a look at FreeBSD instead of spending time on those "my distribution is better than yours" flamewars. Marc PS: Hopefully everyone should be happier with the new version of the page, but if you think I should modify it, I happily accept feedback (you should have Emailed me as soon as you read the page, I'd have fixed it sooner) PPS: you can reply to the from address, but if you want to originate a new message to it (i.e. without 'Re:' in the subject), you have to drop the "_news" part. -- "Microsoft is to software what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking" Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ (friendly to non IE browsers) Finger marc_f@merlins.org for PGP key and other contact information To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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