Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:17:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: poor ethernet performance? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907201311220.27096-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990720134100.00bddb90@localhost>
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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > >Be a prick and be ignored. A Linux survey is not your soapbox, just send > >them an e-mail (aka. use the proper channels). > And be ignored. > >Linux has enough people running around damaging its reputation as it is. > That's why it's so horribly unsuccessful, has a shrinking market and > installed base, and has not aroused the interest of any commercial compiler > vendor. You've entirely misinterpreted the situation. The kids aren't the ones making Linux grow, it's the serious developers and people who work with Linux in the real world that do it. The kids are the hangers-ons, the symptoms. The actual roots lie with the professionals. If FreeBSD sticks to its current course, it too will become popular with the people it needs to be popular with, and the whining, screaming children will follow naturally. The trick is to encourage the good side of advocacy, not to simply promote the side-effects of good advocacy. An analogy could be constructed of promoting mold on your strawberries because all the good strawberry patches eventually develop mold. Instead, you ought to grow more strawberries, even if all you want is to get some really spiffy mold samples growing. You see what I'm saying? --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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