Date: 05 Feb 2003 14:11:51 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object Message-ID: <1044416510.2362.6.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030204203506.03c92d90@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030204201252.03ccb2e0@localhost> <20030205021134.GO12525@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030204201252.03ccb2e0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030204203506.03c92d90@localhost>
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On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:07, Brett Glass wrote: > >are getting it for nothing. > > Voting, being involved in the community, and advocating the > product is a contribution too. As I've said before, the > current system not only does not properly value advocacy > but often assigns it NEGATIVE value when in fact it has > great positive value. This is why FreeBSD is virtually > unknown relative to Linux, and receives none of the > corporate support, press, or other benefits that Linux > does. I don't agree with your statements about lack of commercialisation is the fault of a lack of advocacy. Linux DID get a head start - IMHO that is the leading cause. I don't see how you can prove it one way or the other. (And I'm not particularly interested being bombarded by 'proof' either thanks). I am merely pointing out that my opinion is that if you want to steer the boat, get contributing. You may say evangelising is equally valuable, but I disagree, and from the replies I've seen I'm not the only one. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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