Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 21:43:37 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Re: InfoWorld brawl esclates Message-ID: <8830.894343417.1@time.cdrom.com>
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To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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Subject: Re: InfoWorld brawl esclates
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 May 1998 14:54:15 MDT."
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Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 21:43:37 -0700
Message-ID: <8830.894343417@time.cdrom.com>
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
> "Send me information on a conmmercial FreeBSD vendor with a > $1M annual
> runrate and I'll use it."
That'd be Walnut Creek CDROM, for one. They do easily over $1M in
FreeBSD business a year.
However, there's also the fact that I really could care less just what
Eric Raymond has to say or thinks about free software because his
opinion is no more objective than, say, Bill Gates' on the topic. I
bear the man no personal animosity, don't get me wrong, but it's also
extremely clear that he's a Man On A Mission where it comes to Linux
and any pretense of impartiality on his part would be laughable. To
his credit, I don't believe he's ever claimed such impartiality either
and I'd certainly no more attempt to convince Eric Raymond to help
plug FreeBSD or even report on it objectively than I would Linus
Torvalds. In one very definite sense, he's "the competition" and I'm
no more surprised to see paeans to Linux on www.opensource.org
(however poorly named it might be) than I am to see them at
www.redhat.com. Sorry, them's just the facts!
- Jordan
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