From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 14 18:42:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14902 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA14890 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 32492 invoked from network); 15 Jun 1998 01:42:01 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 15 Jun 1998 01:42:01 -0000 Received: from barnowl (apm7-219.realtime.net [204.96.0.219]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA03640; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 20:41:48 -0500 Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 20:48:13 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: don morrison cc: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Draft of Nader letter In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980614182616.0080c6c0@dmorrisn.deskmail.washington.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I would have to concur on the thrust of your post, Don. I felt Linux was used as an example more than anything else. Mr. Love has only had the opportunity to look at FreeBSD a couple of months. Sure, I would like more coverage, but, in all not too bad. We should stay in tune to this and I would like to thank Brett for doing so. Thanks! John On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, don morrison wrote: > > Maybe they changed the page since your post? (Some of your statements below > are incorrect. e.g. They _did_ mention the BeOS.) I read the article, the > whole thing and all the links to it, in fact, and I didn't find much of a > linux bias. Bias is typically used as a negative term. There was > definately some _enthusiasm_ for linux there and the free software movement > in general, both of which deserved it, I think. As for FreeBSD coverage, > I think Mr. Nader was considerably generous in including FreeBSD as much as > he did in his letter considering he (most likely) only recently became > aware of FreeBSD and hasn't had enough time to research it and come to the > obvious conclusion that everything deserves a FreeBSD bias ;). Nowhere in > his letter did he discuss superiority of one free OS over another, so I > don't think it's fair to say there was a "linux bias". Coverage != bias. > Besides, the FreeBSD coverage was fine! Take the FreeBSD user base. Take > the Linux user base. If you look at those, and then look at how many times > "FreeBSD" and "Linux" are mentioned in the letter, you'll see that FreeBSD > is _grossly_ over-represented. This letter is about _consumers_; keep that > in mind. > > > >James Love, assistant to Ralph Nader, has published a draft of a letter to > >be sent to the Justice Department regarding alternatives to Microsoft OSes. > >The letter shows a heavy bias toward Linux and makes some incorrect > >statements about FreeBSD. We should send feedback urging them to be less > >Linux-centric, mention the other *BSDs, correct the information on FreeBSD, > >and include commercial OSes (such as BSDI, QNX, BeOS, etc.) as well as just > >the free ones as alternatives to Microsoft's products. The draft can be > >found at > > > >http://www.essential.org/antitrust/ms/jkjun151998.html > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message