From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 4 10:35:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565FC15139 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:35:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA24130; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:35:16 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990304113144.03f2bbe0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 11:34:56 -0700 To: Nocturne From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Guess we've lost the server market too...? Cc: Greg Pavelcak , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36DE7B6E.482EE22@uswest.net> References: <4.1.19990303025641.03ef9ba0@localhost> <4.1.19990302210116.009fe670@localhost> <4.1.19990303025641.03ef9ba0@localhost> <4.1.19990303120036.0097e260@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:24 AM 3/4/99 -0800, Nocturne wrote: >Brett Glass wrote: >> The size of the lunatic fringe associated with Linux is largely >> responsible for its success. > >I think this has more to do with the fact that its developers make >up the primary of body of said fringe. There's nothing more powerful >than a devoted lunatic enboldened with technical knowledge of the >object of her/his lunacy. I agree, and we especially need those types, even if they do occasionally foam at the mouth, as Stallman does. (Have you noticed just how much press Stallman gets?) As Jung said: "Be careful when casting out your daemons, for you may be casting out the best part of you." --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message