From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 19 21:46:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 774D01511B for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:46:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA14809; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:15:33 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA83781; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:15:32 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:15:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Wes Peters Cc: Ron Rosson , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An article about FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990720141531.G81840@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990719191007.A50154@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <3793F9CC.4F69337E@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <3793F9CC.4F69337E@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:23:41PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 19 July 1999 at 22:23:41 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: >> >> There is a small free magazine put out in CO and San Diego. Well in the >> edition that came out July 16, 1999 the "I don't do windows" article was >> about FreeBSD. Here is the URL: >> >> http://www.computoredge.com/sandiego/Editorial/idon'tdo.htm >> -- > > Why do I get the idea he's paraphrasing me in several places? Yes, it seemed that way to me, too. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery". I'd guess that your article inspired him to install FreeBSD, and he liked what he saw. > All in all, not a bad effort, though his attempts at UNIX history > were a little laughable. I don't know if "laughable" is the right term. I wrote to him and sent him some corrections, anyway. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message