From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 4 21:44:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA21175 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 21:44:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA21130 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 21:43:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08838 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 21:43:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 21:43:37 -0700 Message-ID: <8830.894343417.1@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: InfoWorld brawl esclates MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----- =_aaaaaaaaaa" Content-Description: Blind Carbon Copy Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To: undisclosed-recipients:; ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Description: Original Message To: Brett Glass cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoWorld brawl esclates In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 May 1998 14:54:15 MDT." <199805042054.OAA09692@lariat.lariat.org> Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 21:43:37 -0700 Message-ID: <8830.894343417@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > "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 ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message