From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri May 25 17:30:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46AAD37B422 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 17:30:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@markemmanuel.org) Received: from [147.126.50.163] (unknown [147.126.50.163]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F797633A for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 19:30:36 -0500 (CDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:30:33 -0500 Subject: Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders StandTogether" From: markemmanuel To: FreeBSD advocacy Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3B0AB396.1F4DC07A@acuson.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoted from the Book of David Johnson Ch 6:7-13 on 5/22/01 1:44 PM: > Pardon me for intruding with some pop sociological and political > analysis of the Linux and BSD communities :-) This is all gross > generalization and prone to bad logic. Woohoo!!! I love sociology. I'm in college right now and my minor is sociology and I'm also pursuing a a computer science certificate. > Hackers and geeks are fiercely independent They demand complete control > over their personal domain. Unix is attractive to them because it places > them in control of their computer. Open Source unices are even more > attractive because it offers them even more control. Yep... I have to agree with that. > Individualists tend to fall into two broad political types. One type is > "hermit". They expect all other people to be equally individualistic. [snip] > The other type is "tribal". They group everyone else into the ranks of > "elder", "us" and "them". It is okay to tell lower ranks what to do, and > it is accepted that lower ranks may very well tell the upper ranks to > "shove off". [snip] > Warfare with other tribes is common. > > BSD land is mainly "hermit". It expects the newbie to be able to learn > how to do stuff on his own. Help is available but hand holding is not. > Warfare between the BSD systems is very rare. The BSD license fits > perfectly. "Do whatever you want with the code." BSD users could care > less what system other people use. > > Linuxland is mainly "tribal". There are tribes within tribes, and they > all fight each other to some extent. If a newbie gets snubbed in one > subtribe, they find another. The GPL license fits perfectly. "Contribute > your code back to the tribe". Linux users often take great offense if > some else isn't using the same extact distro. > > Just some random musings... > > David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message