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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.