Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:29:33 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> To: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> Cc: Wes Peters <wpeters@xylan.com>, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products Message-ID: <19980413232933.11258@snark.thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: <19980413231307.01919@vmunix.com>; from Mark Mayo on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 11:13:07PM -0400 References: <199804131719.LAA21122@narnia.plutotech.com> <35326353.4E30451B@xylan.com> <19980413201541.65522@snark.thyrsus.com> <3532AD36.2968F8B6@xylan.com> <19980413215647.37918@snark.thyrsus.com> <19980413231307.01919@vmunix.com>
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Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com>: > Although there are 3 seperate BSDs, with a few big mouths that sometimes > take things personally, it is very unfair to categorize the entire > movement as you do. The only reason that this reputation > exists is that people like yourself continue to believe/promote it. The > only reason I can think of why you would continue to be mislead in this > fashion, is that you somehow feel better about the splintering of the > Linux groups by creating this mythical war between the BSD "factions" - then > you can compare yourself to this horrible BSD group and feel all warm > and fuzzy inside. Sigh. I *told* you not to bother getting indignant at me. I very much want what you're saying to be true, but you're doing a poor job of convincing me so far. I'm no rabid Linux partisan (I learned my Unix chops under 4.1BSD back in VAX days) and ad-hominem attacks only lead me to suspect that your objective case is weak. -- <a href="http://sagan.earthspace.net/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> There's a truism that the road to Hell is often paved with good intentions. The corollary is that evil is best known not by its motives but by its *methods*. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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