From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 15 21:29:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4803714C37 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:29:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA88342; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:23:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199904160423.VAA88342@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Eric Wayte Cc: Jon Hamilton , Lee Cremeans , dg@root.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jordan the Confused (Was: Jordan The Evil!) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:03:36 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:23:49 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sorry the PERCEPTION is that we either don't exist or we are dying by virtue of Linux growing acceptance. The FreeBSD group or culture with respect to marketing has stayed the same since its inceptions any attempt to change for better or worse is bound to fail due to its mature resilient nature. We could take this argument to the linux usenet advocacy list or an nt advocacy list given that probably very few outside of FreeBSD ever read this mailing list. At any rate, I admire Brett for its stamina we just got to find a common ground to have him maket FreeBSD. HINT: He *IS* smart and can be a very powerful resource;however, I bet that is easier to bury and scare him away . My closing remark: Not too long ago I attended a dinner with some of my friends . They ask me what I thought of Linux so I explained my fundamental issue with Linux : The GPL. Their response: Oh my God! They simply didn't know about GPL . What is sad is that their company, SGI is endorsing Linux. Amancio > FreeBSD is in good company - how many other long lasting computing > projects have had their death greatly exaggerated? > > Unix, COBOL, mainframes, client/server, the PC, etc., etc. :-) > > > Eric Wayte, DBA > Univ. of Central Florida > ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu > > > On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Jon Hamilton wrote: > > > > > Yeah, yeah. ``Death of FreeBSD, film at 11'' and all that. > > > > -- > > Jon Hamilton > > hamilton@pobox.com > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message