From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 25 13:22:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96220151D5 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:22:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id HAA42258; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:52:29 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:52:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat Subject: Re: Reaching the reader (was: UCITA (Important)) Message-ID: <20000126075228.A42227@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000122133716.J391@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000123010329.01aba360@localhost> <20000124112548.D2398@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000123230049.00d51100@localhost> <20000124164844.J2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000124223555.01bc23a0@localhost> <20000126072208.B41924@freebie.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000125140859.01b3de50@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000125140859.01b3de50@localhost> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 25 January 2000 at 14:11:35 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 01:52 PM 1/25/2000 , Greg Lehey wrote: > >> I know authors with more than 50 years' experience who are complete >> failures. > > You don't look that old. That's uncharacteristically primitive for you. > In any event, I've been quite successful, and one of the reasons is > that I say what I think and do not pull punches when I critique > unethical scams such as the GPL. My readers appreciate and respect > that. In fact, I have read and admired your work; that's why I suggested that you write the article. But the articles I read didn't go off GNU-bashing. Write articles like the ones I read and I won't have any problems. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message