From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 0:47:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9DD41503C for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 00:47:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 15394 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Mar 1999 08:44:25 -0000 Message-ID: <19990305084425.15393.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 18:44:24 +1000 From: Greg Black To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Technical questions about BSD References: In-reply-to: of Thu, 04 Mar 1999 16:44:48 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > I'm in the process of writing a feature story [...] > > > > Why bother? You're clearly not qualified. > > I don't think it matters if he is qualified or not. FreeBSD gets > unfortunately little press, and can use all it can get. This is akin to saying that any publicity is better than no publicity. But that's a philosophy that, while suited to predatory scum like billg, has no place in rational people's thinking. > Even if his > story has very little useful information, it can't be more harmful than > no story. I happen to disagree. Look at the way all the lemmings rushed off to play with C++ when it was hyped in the so-called specialist media; look at the way all the lemmings are rushing off to play with Linux now that it's getting all the hype; look at the way the lemmings are rushing to play with Java. While I think that one of these three products has some value in this world, I see the influence of the media as pernicious and quite damaging. In particular, I see that these things lose their way once they get undue publicity. It's easy to learn about FreeBSD and FreeBSD doesn't need the ignorant drivel of some half-baked would-be journalist in order to make its way in the world. I've seen too many human endeavours that turned sour just as soon as the media discovered them. I don't like to see this and I will always argue against it. > The majority only rules those who let them. If this means anything, why slam an iconoclastic opinion? -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message