From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jul 16 21:48: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.mindspring.com (smtp3.mindspring.com [207.69.200.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B779314C49 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 21:47:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (user-2ivea20.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.40.64]) by smtp3.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA06032; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 00:47:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37900ADB.6CA2BD98@confusion.net> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 00:47:23 -0400 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Joseph Scott , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux on college radio show. References: <379008F4.1131C4B2@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm wondering if we can get a transcript of this, since my net connection is just terrible right now and i've taken about 12 minutes to get the first 2 of the show. If anyone knows of a transcript please point me in the right direction. "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Joseph Scott wrote: > > > > As I'm sure many people will point out, the linux guy sure did > > come down on FreeBSD pretty hard at times. > > At one point, he spent a good amount of time bashing BSD, and then > said "that does not answer your question, ..." and then proceeded > *not* to answer the question again! > > > To the interviewer's credit I think he did an excellent job of not > > falling into an OS bashing mode. After hearing the linux guy I was > > concerned that the interviewer was going to expect Jordan to answer these > > issues that were brought up, to be put on the defensive. However I don't > > think he did, as far as the interviewer is concerned I think it was a very > > fair interview. > > I was concerned that might happen too. Kudos for both interviewer > and Jordan not to fall in this trap. The Linux guy kept trying to > weasel out of the questions, while Jordan answered them > straight-forward. > > > If anything it made the guy from VA Linux look bad because out of > > the three people ( Linux, FreeBSD, and the interviewer ), the linux guy > > was the only one who spent large amounts of timing bashing. ( Of course > > NT bashing is open to all :-) > > I think that anyone not biased would end up seeing FreeBSD on a > better light, for the sole reason that > Jordan was more, err, likable. :-) But, then again, I'm biased. I'd > really like to hear what unbiased people thought... > > Hey, can we slashdot this? Or was it slashdotted already? (And, if > so, what's the link?) > > I have had things accepted to slashdot before, so I think I can > _succesfully_ submit it. :-) Just send the link again if anyone is > interested. > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > > "Would you like to go out with me?" > "I'd love to." > "Oh, well, n... err... would you?... ahh... huh... what do I do > next?" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 1999 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message