From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 10 12:07:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24452 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:07:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24441 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:07:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00362; Sun, 10 May 1998 14:06:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199805101906.OAA00362@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Linux as a Mozilla total reference platform In-Reply-To: <19980510204411.25967@techunix.technion.ac.il> from Anatoly Vorobey at "May 10, 98 08:44:11 pm" To: mellon@pobox.com (Anatoly Vorobey) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 14:06:55 -0500 (EST) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > You, Amancio Hasty, were spotted writing this on Sun, May 10, 1998 at 04:04:50AM -0700: > > Technological leads are temporary . Perhaps in a year from now linux > > will be sufficiently strong in the server market and even if it is > > not so the plague of insect like fanatics will probably convince even > > Bill Gates to use linux. They do behave like insects or a weird virus. > > Interesting. One one hand, you suggest FreeBSD supporters are lazy and > that they should go out and advertise, shout about, promote FreeBSD > much more. On the other hand, people who _are_ doing that for Linux are > insects and subjects of a weird virus. > (This is MY opinion and not that of -core.) The frustrating "fact" is that most people using FreeBSD are really using or enhancing it, rather than being advocates. We need more advocates, but that culture needs to be slowly developed. I am frustrated that I cannot participate more in advocacy right now, because I am busy making FreeBSD better (both at work and at home.) It is probably a good idea to support the notion that when a FreeBSD developer doesn't want to "program" or "create", they can "advocate" in their spare time. However, I suspect that most FreeBSD developers have lives outside of FreeBSD and would rather spend their time in areas other than advocacy. It is a difficult problem to solve, and I don't think that we can just try to stay "above it all", but will have to get down 'n dirty also. Advocacy takes lots of energy, and those who have such energy to advocate *BSD should be applauded. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message