From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 17 13:39:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF57137BDBF for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 13:39:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 84342 invoked from network); 17 May 2000 20:39:01 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 17 May 2000 20:39:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 16544 invoked by uid 211); 17 May 2000 20:38:59 -0000 Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 02:08:59 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brett Glass Cc: Wes Peters , Greg Lehey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list Subject: Re: Book chapter on BSD published in Salon Message-ID: <20000518020859.B16497@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Brett Glass , Wes Peters , Greg Lehey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list References: <4.3.1.2.20000516212344.0461bab0@localhost> <20000517163941.J22008@freebie.lemis.com> <39224C59.AE4BD2F1@softweyr.com> <4.3.1.2.20000517120734.045f0770@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000517120734.045f0770@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 12:09:36PM -0600 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >In fact, there seems to be much discussion on whether Linux is better in > >any way, or even usable for that matter. > > Actually, some of the other chapters get into that more. The author has > a strong pro-Linux bias, and characterizes the BSDers as academics who > could develop software and coordinate their own projects but could not > evangelize, promote, or market. Which may even be true. But he is in no way unfair to the BSD's, and he is widely read among linux people and I think this is an excellent "awareness" article for that audience. If more people get interested, more people start using it. I don't see what you're complaining about. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message