From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 21:15:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26296 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 21:15:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA26276; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 21:15:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfieber@indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA11657; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 23:13:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 23:13:30 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: "John S. Dyson" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" In-Reply-To: <199804092221.RAA02226@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > The problem with FreeBSD, is that people working on FreeBSD are generally > older, and find evangelism to be painful. Also, people using FreeBSD > are busy using it, as opposed to worshipping it. This is why I picked the 386BSD path rather than Linux back in, oh, I guess it must have been early 1993. I was in the process of ditching the Amiga as a platform *and* the wretched evangelical user base. It may sound silly, but I chose BSD because the people tinkering with it seemed, on the whole, to be more mature than the Linux crowd. My decision to not take the NetBSD fork in the road was similarly inspired. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message