Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:04:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: brett@lariat.org, mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows Refund Day Press Reports: Linux, Linux, Linux Message-ID: <199902162004.NAA26568@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <22294.919189684@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 16, 99 10:28:04 am
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> I wish people would stop looking at this so one-dimensionally. The > function of these events is not JUST to stoke the press, though that's > always nice, but to also meet some of your fellow geeks and plant the > seed that maybe Linux isn't the only game in town and there are others > who feel just as passionately about a different solution. There were a *lot* of Linux people getting FreeBSD CDROM's out there, I have to admit. 8-). I was also disappointed that there wasn't a FreeBSD "Press Handler" there (that would be *you*, Jordan; I'm not nearly as good at "speechifyin'"). > Given time, I expect that people both inside and outside the press > will get tired of Linux since even the most aggressive press agent has > a hard time getting it to stay focused on anything (just ask the > artist formerly known as Prince) and it will be our 15 minutes on > stage, assuming that we don't screw it up. An excellent point. FreeBSD should be putting together a well rehearsed and very polished performance for when the clock rolls around to FreeBSD's 15 minutes so that they are used to best advantage. I think that Linux is, in a lot of ways, squandering large amounts of their stage time. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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