Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 07:27:19 -0500 From: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> Cc: Graeme@echidna.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Technical questions about BSD Message-ID: <36DFCDA7.4E68@echidna.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903041636120.299-100000@nyc-ny78-59.ix.netcom.com> <19990305084425.15393.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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Greg Black wrote: > > > > > 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. <snip> I think the problem here is that your response to the journalist would more likely result in *bad* press for FreeBSD than no press. > If this means anything, why slam an iconoclastic opinion? It's not the iconoclasm that's in question as I see it, but the way it was expressed. In particular the ad hominem nature of your response. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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