Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 13:33:40 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: phil grainger <freebsd@pronet.net.au> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complimentary article on FreeBSD Message-ID: <v04011702b1a5be70070c@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Version.32.19980611152619.00fa4c00@m1.gdr.net.au> References: <v04011700b1a4c00a8ccd@[128.113.24.47]>
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At 3:32 PM +1000 6/11/98, phil grainger wrote: > this actually highlights a major problem with the freebsd project, > these apple guys are cvsing their rapsody product of freebsd cvs > sites all our work in making freebsd stable, fast, reliable and > user friendly is going into apples coffers, ... Geez. I thought the article itself was good publicity. As such, I thought it would be good news to pass along in the group of people who claim to be interested in good publicity for FreeBSD. If you have problems with the FreeBSD project, well, those are your problems, but I still think the web article was good publicity. I also thought people might be particularly happy that this was an article which actually used FreeBSD in the title, instead of talking about Linux and only adding FreeBSD as a footnote. Now, admittedly, it probably made the title because the word "FreeBSD" helped him to have a cute title. But the article itself did say some nice things about FreeBSD in specific, so it was more than just a cute title. But no, let's have another thread about someone's sour grapes. It is so much more entertaining to bitch and moan than just read a damn web page that's saying good things about a project we claim to be interested in. > a commercial freebsd would stop this problem or at least force > apple to do the right thing In my own personal opinion, a commercial FreeBSD which intends to *force* people to do much of anything would be much less appealing. Why do you hate Microsoft? Because it likes to force people to do things whatever way it sees fit. To fight that, you intend to force people to do different things, as *you* see fit. It is time to review the lessons of "The Devil and Daniel Webster". You don't beat the devil by following his practices. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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