From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 3 12: 8:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F40DC14F3A for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:07:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 4266 invoked from network); 3 Mar 1999 19:58:49 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 3 Mar 1999 19:58:49 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA01384; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:58:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903031958.OAA01384@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: Crongratulations to all at USENIX In-Reply-To: <19990303230221.A11032@ska.bsn> from Andy Newman at "Mar 3, 99 11:02:21 pm" To: atrn@zeta.org.au (Andy Newman) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:58:47 -0500 (EST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andy Newman said: > Looked at the program for the USENIX Technical Conference today and > was happy to see FreeBSD well represented. Well done people. Pity I > can't afford the airfare to witness it. > Yes, from the technical side, FreeBSD is doing well. IMO, several of the FreeBSD crew are among the brightest and best OS developers that there are. FreeBSD's future is not hanging on technical excellence right now, but on marketing. The technical excellence is a given. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message