From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Aug 7 18:53:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from web1003.mail.yahoo.com (web1003.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E449614CDE for ; Sat, 7 Aug 1999 18:53:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bvmcg@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19990808015259.16336.rocketmail@web1003.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.29.199.43] by web1003.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 07 Aug 1999 18:52:59 PDT Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 18:52:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian McGroarty Reply-To: brian@pobox.com Subject: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a pr To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When you stated my motivation for tackling the packaging issue was one of wanting to score a quick, cheap "win," I took that as a personal insult. I see things got a bit out of hand with the inclusion of the Daemon issue, and I understand you do indeed put up with a good number of hecklers and well-intending do-nothings. Please give me the benefit of the doubt and assume I'm neither here, and please accept my apology for running as long with this as I did. I'm often more stubborn than I need to be; even if it's not the most pleasant approach, often that's what it takes to get things done. --- "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > To my way of thinking, a personal attack would have been to > state > outright that your parentage was suspect or that your entire > existence > was a waste of perfectly good organic molecules or anything > else not > dealing with the points you raised and instead shifting > entirely to > you, the person. Perhaps some of the analogies I drew were > harshly > drawn, but at all times what I've sought to "attack" have been > your > IDEAS and/or the manner in which you chose to present them, > not you, > Mr. Brian McGroarty, as a person. > _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message