From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 16 8:45:19 1999 Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA07785 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 08:45:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id JAA22683; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:45:15 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990216094216.040c0f00@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:45:11 -0700 To: crh@outpost.co.nz, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Newsflash: The Media Are Stupid In-Reply-To: <199902160547.SAA22820@fep2-orange.clear.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >BTW Brett - while you were lamenting the evils of Linux, the >FreeBSDers who actually attended Windows Refund Day and handed out >FreeBSD stuff probably achieved far more for FreeBSD advocacy. I actually attended an event in another city, though it rather fizzled. And you know darn well that I don't think Linux itself is evil; it's the GPL, and the rabid zealots who attempt to exclude all alternatives (and, yes, they DID successfully exclude users of commercial OSes pretty much entirely in the Bay Area) which do great harm. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message