From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 4 16:57:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AC2A150B9 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:57:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 17116 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 1999 00:57:08 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 17006 invoked by uid 0); 5 Mar 1999 00:57:03 -0000 Received: from bdsl224.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (209.180.169.224) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 5 Mar 1999 00:57:03 -0000 Message-ID: <36DF2BDD.4873FAE1@uswest.net> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 16:57:01 -0800 From: Nocturne Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: Greg Pavelcak , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guess we've lost the server market too...? References: <4.1.19990303025641.03ef9ba0@localhost> <4.1.19990302210116.009fe670@localhost> <4.1.19990303025641.03ef9ba0@localhost> <4.1.19990303120036.0097e260@localhost> <4.1.19990304113144.03f2bbe0@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > 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?) [...] If I could read C and understand what it's doing, and had a spare month to get through the key areas, I could become one very emboldened lunatic (I'm only timid one now) -- dpilgrim@uswest.net ICQ: 29880099 gryph@mindless.com PGP DH/DSS key available If you're gonna build a house of cards, use the plastic coated kind Cuz I'll bet the homeowner's insurance won't cover flood damage To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message