Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 22:13:47 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: dg@root.com Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoWorld brawl esclates Message-ID: <199805050413.WAA14997@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199805050216.TAA17681@implode.root.com> References: <Your message of "Mon, 04 May 1998 17:23:20 MDT." <199805042323.RAA11721@lariat.lariat.org>
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Actually, since FreeBSD is the underdog, the aftermath of even a knock-down drag-out brawl would, in the long run, help it, because it would raise awareness. Since people don't take EITHER side in such a free-for-all at face value, they usually decide they want to find out for themselves. Which benefits the product that's less widely known -- in this case, FreeBSD. Now, I'm not saying that I *like* such brawls or want to see them -- only that if they do happen they won't hurt the cause in the long run. Silence will. I agree that WC CD-ROM should approve any release of numbers. But why wouldn't they, if it gave them an opportunity to boost sales? --Brett At 07:16 PM 5/4/98 -0700, David Greenman wrote: >>I was under the impression that dg had recently published hard numbers >>showing this trend. It'd certainly help to quote them there. > > No, I've never quoted hard numbers. I think doing so, as a contractor for >WC CDROM, would be unethical and possibly illegal. I think it would be best >to drop this type of 'attack' against the Stallmanites as it will only serve >to further polarize people against us and I definately DON'T want that to >happen. We should be extending welcoming hands to the Linux people and >working on converting them to FreeBSD, not alienating them with this sort of >rhetoric. > >-DG > >David Greenman >Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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