From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 5 11:10:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06760 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 11:10:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06747; Tue, 5 May 1998 11:10:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.127]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03097; Tue, 5 May 1998 11:08:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA20197; Tue, 5 May 1998 11:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805051808.LAA20197@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: InfoWorld brawl esclates In-Reply-To: <199805050216.TAA17681@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "May 4, 98 07:16:02 pm" To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 11:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Cc: brett@lariat.org, eivind@yes.no, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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