Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 00:04:30 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> To: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: branding Message-ID: <19980730000430.E15941@snark.thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: <35BFEBEF.82BA6DC6@ibm.net>; from Don Wilde on Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 08:43:43PM -0700 References: <35BF334C.5D5F40BD@ibm.net> <19980729104951.A14984@snark.thyrsus.com> <35BFEBEF.82BA6DC6@ibm.net>
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Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net>: > Eric, that statement is tragic. Oh, dry up. You're forgetting that the Open Source pages aren't designed to make hackers feel warm and fuzzy. They're designed for the *sole purpose* of persuading corporate types who care about nothing but money. Before these guys will adopt the Open Source way, they need to believe doing so will make them piles of (more) money. Therefore, not only do I exclude noncommercial projects, I exclude companies with less than a million dollars a year run rate. Anything that plays into the Wall Street fat cat's prejudice that we're a bunch of idealists in sandals would sabotage the message. This has nothing to do with my personal motivations. It's completely a question of how you tune your propaganda to your audience. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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