Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 11:08:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: brett@lariat.org, eivind@yes.no, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoWorld brawl esclates Message-ID: <199805051808.LAA20197@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199805050216.TAA17681@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "May 4, 98 07:16:02 pm"
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According to David Greenman: > >I was under the impression that dg had recently published hard numbers > >showing this trend. It'd certainly help to quote them there. > > No, I've never quoted hard numbers. I think doing so, as a contractor for > WC CDROM, would be unethical and possibly illegal. I think it would be best > to drop this type of 'attack' against the Stallmanites as it will only serve > to further polarize people against us and I definately DON'T want that to > happen. We should be extending welcoming hands to the Linux people and > working on converting them to FreeBSD, not alienating them with this sort of > rhetoric. > Finally a breath of fresh air. We in the BSD ``camp'' would do better to co-operate that compete. Any victory would be Pyrrhic at best. One reason we humans have survived these score millennia is because cooperation precedes competition. Individual effort sometimes yield brilliant results; cooperative, maximum. Both operating systems would gain if features from each were shared. Both the *BSD and *Linux OS's agree with the free software paradigm; it's a matter of degree. gary > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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