From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 18 13:37: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp09.phx.gblx.net (smtp09.phx.gblx.net [206.165.6.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2068537B92E; Thu, 18 May 2000 13:36:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp09.phx.gblx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA64614; Thu, 18 May 2000 13:36:46 -0700 Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp09.phx.gblx.net, id smtpdPhySqa; Thu May 18 13:36:41 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA21308; Thu, 18 May 2000 13:36:23 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200005182036.NAA21308@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Book chapter on BSD published in Salon To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 20:36:23 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters), grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD advocacy list) In-Reply-To: <20000518020859.B16497@physics.iisc.ernet.in> from "Rahul Siddharthan" at May 18, 2000 02:08:59 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Actually, some of the other chapters get into that more. The author has > > a strong pro-Linux bias, and characterizes the BSDers as academics who > > could develop software and coordinate their own projects but could not > > evangelize, promote, or market. > > Which may even be true. But he is in no way unfair to the BSD's, and > he is widely read among linux people and I think this is an excellent > "awareness" article for that audience. If more people get interested, > more people start using it. I don't see what you're complaining about. His history is not 100% correct, and it's going to potentially hurt BSD in the long run to have lots of people believing it because it's now "common knowledge". The Linus commentary is really unfair to Linus (c.v. the discussion about source code control, also in this thread). Unfortunately, correcting this could be even more injurious to BSD, so I'm going to let sleeping dogs lie... 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