From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jul 23 20:42:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C29615607 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 20:42:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA07233; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 13:11:40 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA43251; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 13:11:39 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 13:11:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Linus Torvalds - Chris Donohue (MSNBC) Tue Feb 9 17:37:29 Message-ID: <19990724131139.P84734@freebie.lemis.com> References: <73468.932787161@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <73468.932787161@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 08:32:41PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 23 July 1999 at 20:32:41 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> [How should we treat the following proof of LACK of fair play from >> Linus?] >> >>> Host Chris_MSNBC says: >>> Josh Bell: What do you think about the BSD project that is now starting >>> to get more and more support, do you think it will take Linux's hype away, >>> once more and more people learn about the free distributions of BSD? >>> >>> Host Linus_Torvalds- says: >>> I actually think that they have been going away instead of actually making >>> a comeback. And I think they were interesting projects. > > Ignore it. You can only get muddy by playing in the same mud puddle > and I don't think that slamming Linux back is the way to gain > converts. Let Linus say all he likes about "BSD going away" and we'll > continue to convert Linux people to FreeBSD at a significant rate, > just as we always have. Maybe he'll wake up someday to find that our > "dead" project has converted the majority of his former adherents. :-) In fact, I think Linus meant it seriously when he said that. On the whole, he's not given to inflammatory statements. I think this shows more of his perspective rather than any fervent hope. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message