From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 24 17:38:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14309 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 17:38:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-gw2.pacbell.net (mail-gw2.pacbell.net [206.13.28.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14300 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 17:37:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackv@earthling.net) Received: from eliot.pacbell.net (ppp-206-170-29-29.wnck11.pacbell.net [206.170.29.29]) by mail-gw2.pacbell.net (8.8.8/8.7.1+antispam) with SMTP id RAA19752 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 17:37:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jack Velte" Cc: Subject: Re: A proposal for focus. Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 16:07:59 -0700 Message-ID: <01bd8768$cbacf420$3001aace@eliot.pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >We need to re-focus on the fact that we are, first and foremost, a >free software project which is principally maintained by people who >really like free software and wouldn't even BE here were it not for >that fact. There's a good parable about a goose which lays golden >eggs and its greedy owners cutting it open to get the eggs out faster >which would probably apply here. I'm all for measured progress i want to buy better goose food and a goose house. cutting the goose open would be counter-prioductive. but it would be nice if the goose would stop laying those eggs in the river. -jack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message