From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 9:29:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wpi.com (congo.wpi.com [206.204.86.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D0C14D56 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:29:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nora@linuxworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wpi.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA05827 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:26:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:26:30 -0700 (PDT) From: nora To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: advocacy how-to 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 dear freeBSD answer person, for some reason, i feel like i recently saw a BSD advocacy how-to discussing the ways people should act while, er, well - while practicing BSD advocacy. included in this how-to (or FAQ, or whatever it was) were some pointers on how one shouldn't really pick on linux while advocating BSD, because you're unlikely to win friends by picking on people's OSs - and that it is more contructive to point out the good things about BSD than to point out the bad things about another OS. or something along those lines.. i wanted to find this document so i could send the URL to one of my writers, who is writing about a topic completely unrelated to BSD or to Linux, but nonetheless is falling into the same trap - namely he isn't being as persuasive as he might be if he were more careful to act a bit more like marc antony in his famous speech. i don't suppose you know what document it is that i think i saw? if you do, and if you could send me a URL, i'd really appreciate it. i've been looking for a while this morning, and have been having no luck at all. thank you for your time & consideration and i look forward to hearing from you. best regards, nora mikes senior editor linuxworld nora@linuxworld.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message