From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 8 17:59: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avarice.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7600414FC9 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:59:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from avarice (unknown@avarice [10.0.0.2]) by avarice.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA27294; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:58:36 -0700 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:58:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa To: Terry Lambert Cc: Brett Taylor , jcwells@u.washington.edu, brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Targeting the server: Not such a good idea? In-Reply-To: <199910090053.RAA01748@usr09.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > Which is really belied by Tim's company's own actions, with > regard to publication of Linux vs. BSD materials, IMO. > > This is a situation where he publically holds one opinion, but > acts in contravention of that opinion. > > Linus has consistently, in recent times, played a political role > as an anti-Microsoft crusader, using it as a rallying point to > attract ever more support for Linux. > > Tim's organization, through their publications, has demonstrably > demonstrated, through a preferential support of Linux, support > by proxy for this position, while claiming at the same time that > BSD represents a superior server OS. > > One could argue either that one of these contradictory views > must be falsely held, or that he's torn between philosophy (BSD) > and following the money (Linux). Do you know how many submissions they get for BSD related books compared to how many submissions they get for Linux related books? --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message