From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 17 18:15:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from tacni.net (mail.tacni.net [216.178.136.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75AED37B43C for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:15:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from needo@cerebro.superhero.org) Received: (qmail 44249 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2001 01:15:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cerebro.superhero.org) (216.201.173.186) by ns2.sohos.net with SMTP; 18 Apr 2001 01:15:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 694 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Apr 2001 01:15:50 -0000 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:15:50 -0500 From: Erich Zigler To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010417201549.D526@superhero.org> Mail-Followup-To: Erich Zigler , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3ADCE80B.F4097D2C@acuson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3ADCE80B.F4097D2C@acuson.com>; from djohnson@acuson.com on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:04:11PM -0700 X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy. X-Shane: Hi Shane! Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:04:11PM -0700, David Johnson wrote: > BSD and Linux should compete on their merits, not on the basis of which > side can spit the furthest. Windriver's actions probably did more to > alienate the Linux community than it did to help the BSD community. A > net negative. As if we aren't already alienated enough. Trying to work with die-hard users of any OS is sometimes very difficult. Even more so it seems for Linux and FreeBSD users. When are people going to learn that every OS has it's merits, and that if we can just stop trying to prove who has the larger penis we could accomplish alot more then what we are currently. -- Erich Zigler We aim to please. Ourselves, mostly, but we do aim to please. -- Anthony DeBoer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message