From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 20:13:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10BC014E4D for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 20:11:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09971; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 15:12:51 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990306151250.B9826@caamora.com.au> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 15:12:50 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: Graeme Tait , Greg Black Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Technical questions about BSD Mail-Followup-To: Graeme Tait , Greg Black , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19990305084425.15393.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> <36DFCDA7.4E68@echidna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <36DFCDA7.4E68@echidna.com>; from Graeme Tait on Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 07:27:19AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 07:27:19AM -0500, Graeme Tait wrote: > Greg Black wrote: > > > > > > > I'm in the process of writing a feature story [...] > > > > > > > > Why bother? You're clearly not qualified. > > > > > > I don't think it matters if he is qualified or not. FreeBSD gets > > > unfortunately little press, and can use all it can get. > > > > This is akin to saying that any publicity is better than no > > publicity. But that's a philosophy that, while suited to > > predatory scum like billg, has no place in rational people's > > thinking. > > > > > Even if his > > > story has very little useful information, it can't be more harmful than > > > no story. > > > > I happen to disagree. > > > > > I think the problem here is that your response to the journalist would more > likely result in *bad* press for FreeBSD than no press. > > > > If this means anything, why slam an iconoclastic opinion? > > > It's not the iconoclasm that's in question as I see it, but the way it was > expressed. In particular the ad hominem nature of your response. here we all go again ... crusade time again. take time out jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message