From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 8 20:43:16 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 53C5A15357; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 20:43:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA10631; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 21:42:55 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991008205825.044453d0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 21:21:23 -0600 To: Wes Peters , "Daniel C. Sobral" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Critic to The Cathedral and The Bazaar Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <37FE69D9.D0CB3836@softweyr.com> References: <37FE1EF1.6544AB38@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:02 PM 10/8/99 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: >"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > > There is an interesting critic to the famous ESR's article at > > http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_10/bezroukov/index.html. > > Interestingly, FreeBSD (and Jordan) is mentioned. > >This is quite a good article, with some interesting points to make. And a few REALLY serious mistakes, especially where FreeBSD is concerned. For example: " Being less PC-friendly then Linux and due to legal problems with AT&T, at some point the FreeBSD movement lost momentum and later suffered also from an internal split (OpenBSD)." Like many writers who cover open source, he seems to go out of his way to dismiss the BSDs, applying several of the bogus arguments in Raymond's "Halloween memo." --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message