Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 22:23:54 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, "David Shanes" <dshanes@personalogic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <199804100424.WAA09598@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <3980.892169423@time.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Thu, 09 Apr 1998 13:37:44 PDT." <01f501bd63f7$597e4000$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>
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At 05:50 PM 4/9/98 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>I was told by Eric Raymond (whom I met briefly at the Mozilla party)
>that the *BSD people were deliberately excluded because there were too
>many BSDs and they didn't want to get involved in any political issues
>over it.
This is a lame excuse. The various *BSD groups are far more well disposed
toward one another than, say, Larry Wall and his "Artistic License" crowd
is toward the Linux zealots.
>This and several other incidents of a similar nature has pretty much
>convinced me that this crowd would rather prefer it if we really
>didn't exist at all and is going to essentially conduct their
>operations as if we didn't. Oh well. Perhaps it *IS* time to go on
>the PR offensive here ("Why Linux doesn't work") since playing nice
>guys hasn't appeared to have won us anything but lots of nice comments
>from folks like Marc A. at netscape to the effect that "Linux is the
>only free OS alternative." I'm getting tired of that, and if it's
>going to take "breaking ranks" with the rest of the free OS community
>to get our own message out, maybe it's time.
I sure think it's time. Free software is on the ascendent; it's now or
never.
--Brett
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