From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 4 10:47: 7 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 104E9150B3 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:46:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA24245; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:46:17 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990304114332.03f29920@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 11:46:03 -0700 To: Greg Pavelcak From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Guess we've lost the server market too...? Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19990304064953.A252@oitunix.oit.umass.edu> References: <4.1.19990303120036.0097e260@localhost> <4.1.19990303025641.03ef9ba0@localhost> <4.1.19990302210116.009fe670@localhost> <4.1.19990303025641.03ef9ba0@localhost> <19990303084501.A27440@oitunix.oit.umass.edu> <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 06:49 AM 3/4/99 -0500, Greg Pavelcak wrote: >Well, let's see. When I see people at Packers' games in the >winter with their clothes off, I don't think the Packers are >worth being fanatical about, I think lots of sports fans are >idiots. Maybe; you'd be the type who'd listen to the "voice of reason" types. But many people's attention is captured by such fanatics. Folks say, "Geeze, if this is so exciting that those people are parading around with their shirts off in the dead of winter, maybe it's worth my notice!" >When I see e-mails of the `mine is bigger than yours type' >regarding OSes, it reminds me that many people really *into* the >software game are not just young but children, in more ways than >one. The MAJORITY of people act like children. They just act like different KINDS of children. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message