Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 22:11:35 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Message-ID: <4.1.19981002220838.040ebcf0@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <11199.907386695@time.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Fri, 02 Oct 1998 22:04:50 CDT." <19981002220450.A11661@execpc.com>
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At 08:51 PM 10/2/98 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >Volunteer labor is also, not so coincidently, what got Linux to >where it is today in all the areas that you and Brett are crying over. >It's not Red Hat's doing - they're just surfing the top of the wave >and trying to make it look as if they're actually steering it. Poppycock. They're not just surfing. They're making a big investment of their own. >You have a choice. As I have said so many times now that it must be >becoming a litany, if you want to do FreeBSD a whole bunch of good for >very little comparative cost, go write a book. Or a magazine article. >Or even a 10 page self-help guide (which frequently grow into books >anyway). You don't need anyone's help or buy-in or official blessing >to do any of that.... Sorry, but I've been there and done that. I've written plenty of magazine articles and am working on a book, but neither will do anything significant to stop the accelerating trend. Marketing and investment will. Now, who's gonna do it? If Walnut Creek won't, must we have a schism? I'd sure rather not. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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