From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Mar 7 6:52:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7FA637B71B for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 06:52:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA72177; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:51:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:51:09 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Chris Coleman , Wes Peters , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maxtor picks Windows, dumps open source Message-ID: <20010307095109.B72098@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20010306153122.A69160@blackhelicopters.org> <004c01c0a6e4$0a3e8e40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <004c01c0a6e4$0a3e8e40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:53:12AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:53:12AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > I'm intersted in doing an article on #2, but my concern on a > "react to the media spin" #1 article is that I frankly view the original > article as an attempt to stir up controversy, not an attempt to > convey a newsworthy item. As such I think that it can be safely > ignored. Any attempt to respond with another mainstream media piece > is simply going to play into the hands of the original reporter. [gobs of good stuff deleted] After some sleep, you're right. Chris, if my BSD column ever stoops to this, please smack me. Repeatedly. I'll bow out, then. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message