Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:11:01 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: dwilde1@ibm.net Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <199804110511.AAA03462@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <352EF5E5.94ACBB06@ibm.net> from Don Wilde at "Apr 10, 98 09:47:33 pm"
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> It sounds like there's a lot of enthusiasm and agreement. We even heard > from both Jordan and John asking for such. Gentlemen (and Sue Blake, et > al), fire up your EMACS! > > PS Press Releases are not magazine copy. Don't mistake them, they have > different purposes. > I am ignorant about PR, so please recognize this when reading my comments about such things. I just want to chime in (again) and suggest showing enthusiasm and competency. However, I STRONGLY suggest that we not show arrogance or an excessively superior attitude. We have so many good things on our side (including being very reasonable and careful with our claims.) Let's be extremely enthusiastic, and at the same time being very honest about what we are and aren't. Credibility is critical, and that is one of our major assets. We don't use terms like 'Kewl' and 'rulz', even though we have users and developers of all age groups. We all try to chip-in, and don't have any sort of cult of personality. I think that we all want to be a part of a "class act". (For non native American English speakers, that means that we maintain ourselves with both concern for others, and also maintain high standards for ourselves, both ethically and try not to show excessive judgement of others personally.) With the relatively centralized development, all of the various contributors and developers have a sense of ownership. This lends a craftmanship quality to our efforts. We all want our project to endure, and I am sure we also have no delusions of "taking over the world", or imposing our personal beliefs on others. I hope that this new movement in FreeBSD takes on the challenge of publicizing the project with a positive and non-confrontational message. We need to maintain the same high standards in our evangelism as we try to in our development!!! My hope is that the project will be perceived as a class-act without any sort of snobbery, and very inclusive. IMO, we all need to get this message out. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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