From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 5 17:30:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D384837B403 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 17:30:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gehicks@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([64.172.24.59]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GG1008HC0391Y@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 05 Jul 2001 17:30:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 17:30:27 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks Subject: Re: FreeBSD spokesman. To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3B4506A3.5E15D22C@pacbell.net> Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc. MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: <20010704203411.16408.qmail@web13605.mail.yahoo.com> <20010704142712.D2156@lpt.ens.fr> <20010704203411.16408.qmail@web13605.mail.yahoo.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705115552.0468ce00@localhost> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > [from some caustic irritant on -chat] > > Such advocacy is especially important right now, at a time when > the press is portraying Microsoft and the GPL as if they were > the only two alternatives. The BSDs represent one that's much > better than either. > Advocacy often seems to be overrated, especially by the loudest and most ineffective advocates. Similarly, it's an amazing thing how incompetent people are often convinced they are the most competent. Please don't CC me on any followups. Unsubscribing this madness now... Bah, W Gerald Hicks gehicks@pacbell.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message