From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 4:25:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hera.webcom.com (hera.webcom.com [209.1.28.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 214E615174 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 04:25:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from eresh.webcom.com (eresh.webcom.com [209.1.28.49]) by hera.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id EAA16131; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 04:24:40 -0800 Received: from [204.143.69.20] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 10797024; Fri Mar 05 04:22 PST 1999 Message-Id: <36DFCDA7.4E68@echidna.com> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 07:27:19 -0500 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Black Cc: Graeme@echidna.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Technical questions about BSD References: <19990305084425.15393.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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