From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 21 07:13:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13164 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:13:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13138 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:13:40 GMT (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-176.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.176]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA65222; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:13:25 GMT Message-ID: <353CA963.D9E742D5@ibm.net> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:12:51 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: Malartre , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A lot of idea --- Coordination References: <35397809.7D796AF1@aei.ca> <35397ED0.57BF7C0C@ibm.net> <19980421143511.22454@papillon.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > The FreeBSD movement is not a democracy. In a democracy, the majority > wins. I think the FreeBSD movement is a good example where a > democracy would be a Bad Thing. You're right. I just got reminded of that. > The FreeBSD movement is an anarchy. People go and do their thing, and > many benefit from it. The classical problems of anarchies (people > making their own laws and terrorizing their neighbours) is eliminated > by the communication medium. I'd say, almost correct. Core does have veto power and their own agenda. However, it is a good example of what we Libertarians in America would like to create as a political system. It works very well. Those who like it, stay and contribute. Those who don't, leave. > Linux and FreeBSD have different structures, but they're much more > similar than you might think. I wonder what the FreeBSD movement > would look like if it were the size of the Linux movement. You know, I've been thinking (nooooo!) about this. Perhaps we should leave the 'doze market to Linux and realize that we are already tearing bricks out of the market for SCO, Solaris and HP-UX in terms of comparative ###. FreeBSD is primarily positioned as a server OS, and those are our real competition in that arena. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see FreeBSD on the desktop, but the reality is that it ainna gonna happen until we can plunk a good safe office suite on the CD that reads and writes Word6 and Excel5 files. I understand that StarOffice _was_ a close pass at that, but it's no longer an option. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message