From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 23 14:20:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31CCD14BD2 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:20:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA22207; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:18:58 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903232218.OAA22207@implode.root.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Enough already! (was Re: Netscape browser) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:19:45 GMT." <19990323111945.51440@goatsucker.org> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:18:58 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 06:20:49PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >> It looks as if any attempt to spur advocacy for, or promotion of, FreeBSD >> is doomed to failure in this group. No wonder FreeBSD is falling into >> obscurity while Linux crushes everything in sight. > >One might argue that "FreeBSD is falling into obscurity" because we all -- >with a few notable exceptions -- sit around here bitching about it rather >than doing anything to remedy the situation. And Brett, you're as guilty >of all talk, no action as anybody; witness the amount of effort you've put >into this thread, repeating the same arguments a million times. I don't see how anyone can credibly argue that FreeBSD, an operating system that is still growing its userbase exponentially each year, is "falling into obscurity". I just don't see that in the numbers - quite the opposite, actually. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message