Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:39:06 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org> Cc: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: branding Message-ID: <19980730113906.C16515@snark.thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: <17287.901789900@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 02:11:40AM -0700 References: <19980730065206.11785.qmail@hyperreal.org> <17287.901789900@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com>: > I think that Eric has, by inference, chosen to speak for all of us by > putting up the OpenSource pages and if that's the case then he'd > either better START speaking for all of us or find a number of arrows > fired in his direction from the very community he's claiming to > support. Will that better the cause of free software or make us look > any more professional in the eyes of the "Wall Street fatcats" he > claims to be courting here? No, it most definitely will not, and if > Eric really DOES have an eye for the "bigger picture" as he claims > here, he'll wake up and realize this before creating yet another > unwonted and destructive schism in the free software community. This is really rich. It boils down to "Do things my way or I'll throw a public tantrum just to make us all look like squabbling pre-schoolers." Jordan is now displaying the kind of superb advocacy and people skills that blew BSD's technical lead and left the leading position in the open-source community lying in the road for the Linux people to pick up. My roots are in BSD (4.1c on a Vax back in 1982). BSD is the only Unix I have kernel code in (I wrote your speaker driver). But you guys remind me of that British diplomat's crack about the Palestinians -- "they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity". From the days of Jolix onwards you've been your own worst enemies, wasting your energy on feuds and bickering and founding the spinoff-group-of-the-week instead of getting the job done. Now Jordan is threatening to do it again. How very intelligent. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> The possession of arms by the people is the ultimate warrant that government governs only with the consent of the governed. -- Jeff Snyder To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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