From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 12:15:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8074816A4B3 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:15:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D31643FEC for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:15:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:4639 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1A6apP-0006de-3p; Mon, 06 Oct 2003 12:15:31 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:12:25 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-145.acuson.com ([157.226.46.145]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id TRYRBMTL; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:11:30 -0700 From: Johnson David To: twig les , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:14:22 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20030929162808.41655.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030929162808.41655.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310061214.22886.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1A6apP-0006de-3p*dDLjYUicwg2* X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: Rumour Mill on FreeBSD Death Still .... X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 19:15:33 -0000 On Monday 29 September 2003 09:28 am, twig les wrote: > I just bought a "Daemon Xing" shirt at Toorcon and me and the > guy selling the shirts had a good laugh at slashdot's expense. > It's too bad a site with so much interesting stuff is so biased > in it's stories despite the fact that we have about 95% in > common with the Linux ppl. The trolls make the comments almost > not worth reading. I bought and wore that shirt at LinuxWorld a few months ago. I was working in the KDE booth and had quite a few people come up asking me about BSD. There was quite a lot of misinformation out there that I had the opportunity to correct. David