Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 19:54:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ariel Faigon: The Holloween Document (fwd) Message-ID: <199811021954.MAA03757@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199811020606.XAA00655@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Nov 1, 98 11:06:57 pm
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> I got this on a linux list that I'm on and thought I'd forward it to > this group. It seems relevant. It will likely make you mad. [ ... ] > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html It seems to me a bit too conveniently supportive of ESR's commentary and the whole "Microsoft Pheeeeeeerz Linux" mentality. There are also some gross historical errors with regard to BSD, in particular the organization of the family tree, what constitutes a factionalization, and the total disregard of the existance of Bill Jolitz. In short, it looks like it was written by someone with a rosy view of Linux, a less rosy view of BSD, a paranoid fixation on Microsoft, an agenda about what they felt "needs fixing" (phrased as an observation of "weakness"), and a near total lack of understanding of market dynamics and game theory. In short, not someone that Microsoft would ever pay to analyze what the document purports to analyze. As a memetic virus attempt, it's nearly perfect in that no matter how Microsoft does or doesn't respond, it will create a lot of Press fervor in the vein "Microsoft Pheeeeeeerz Linux in memo". I think it's likely to have what I believe is its intended effect: more press coverage for Linux in the mainstream media. All in all, we should commision Brett Glass to write one for FreeBSD. Followups to FreeBSD-advocacy. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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