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Date:      Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:47:35 -0800
From:      Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where is FreeBSD going?
Message-ID:  <20040107024735.GW2838@silverwraith.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20040105134236.03b51cc0@localhost>
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:52:50PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> FreeBSD also keeps falling farther and farther behind Linux in the area
> of advocacy (and, hence, corporate adoption). Again, this is a governance 
> issue. Many of the developers actually have an antipathy toward advocacy, 
> since they dislike answering newbie FAQs and don't want too many
> people to adopt the OS for fear that it'll overcrowd their "sandbox." So,
> some of the criticism is actually valid.

Advocacy is NOT a race or a popularity contest.



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