Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 21:43:37 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoWorld brawl esclates Message-ID: <8830.894343417@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 May 1998 14:54:15 MDT." <199805042054.OAA09692@lariat.lariat.org>
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
> "Send me information on a conmmercial FreeBSD vendor with a > $1M annual > runrate and I'll use it." That'd be Walnut Creek CDROM, for one. They do easily over $1M in FreeBSD business a year. However, there's also the fact that I really could care less just what Eric Raymond has to say or thinks about free software because his opinion is no more objective than, say, Bill Gates' on the topic. I bear the man no personal animosity, don't get me wrong, but it's also extremely clear that he's a Man On A Mission where it comes to Linux and any pretense of impartiality on his part would be laughable. To his credit, I don't believe he's ever claimed such impartiality either and I'd certainly no more attempt to convince Eric Raymond to help plug FreeBSD or even report on it objectively than I would Linus Torvalds. In one very definite sense, he's "the competition" and I'm no more surprised to see paeans to Linux on www.opensource.org (however poorly named it might be) than I am to see them at www.redhat.com. Sorry, them's just the facts! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the messagehelp
Want to link to this message? Use this
URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?8830.894343417>