From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 15 17:34:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA24305 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:34:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA24296; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:34:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA26123; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:12:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704160012.RAA26123@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]... To: jbryant@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:12:54 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704152358.SAA12362@argus> from "Jim Bryant" at Apr 15, 97 06:58:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > let's get to the point... let's get off our butts and get FreeBSD > > > recognized by professional developers and software companies... bs > > > like this thread isn't going to do it... > > > > How do you propose to bell this cat? It has no neck... > > okay terry, now you got me doing it too... > > get a life... I was entirely serious, even if my intentionally mixed metaphor was (apparently) too opaque. How do you propose to "get FreeBSD recognized by professional developers and software companies"? What are the steps you believe will achieve this goal, so that the FreeBSD people can "get off their butts" and "do it"? Enlightenment is not some "thing" you can just "give" to professional developers and software companies, after which they will "have" it, and forever after prefer FreeBSD to all other platforms. You can complain that the discussion is not resolving "the real issue", but the complaints do no good without some action to put in their stead; what implementable *process* do you propose? Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- "Never substitute activity for action" -- Seneca, Stoic philosoper --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.