Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:10:13 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Message-ID: <20010612201013.L7519@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3B2658AD.4665E0F6@acuson.com>; from djohnson@acuson.com on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:00:13AM -0700 References: <20010612164749.38598.qmail@web12308.mail.yahoo.com> <20010612193022.K7519@lpt.ens.fr> <3B2658AD.4665E0F6@acuson.com>
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David Johnson said on Jun 12, 2001 at 11:00:13: > > Which is, obviously, not an unjustified impression. Though I have > > never understood this attitude. What's the point of fighting linux? > > It's not the real enemy (or any kind of enemy). > > Advocates of any OS always fight the advocates of any other OS. It's a > law of nature. Go to the Linux advocacy sites and see what they say > about BSD, or a Debian advocacy site to see what they say about Redhat. True. However, the "public face" of linux right now is the big companies like Red Hat, and I haven't heard them criticise SuSE or Mandrake in public. So magazines like ZDNet don't carry anti-RedHat quotes from Debian users, and such statements don't tend to damage the linux community as a whole. FreeBSD doesn't have such a public face, so a journalist looking to find out about it will probably go to a search engine. The FreeBSD web page isn't very flashy, so he may dig through the mailing list archives, or do web searches for comparisons with linux. So the raw comments are the first thing he sees. Moreover, the anti-Red Hat comments by Debian users are criticisms of how RH bundles its system, not of the software itself (which is mostly the same) and not of the license (where Red Hat is almost as fastidious as Debian, though SuSE and Caldera aren't). The anti-linux statements in BSD lists/sites are much more broad-ranging and often philosophical rather than technical. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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