From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 9 15:23:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA23670 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:23:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA23615; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:23:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02232; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 17:22:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199804092222.RAA02232@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" In-Reply-To: <199804092124.OAA00915@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Apr 9, 98 02:24:18 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 17:22:46 -0500 (EST) Cc: dshanes@personalogic.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Here is Tim O'Reilly's response. > ... > > >BTW, the main focus was on internet software, not on > > >operating systems. > > Of course, operating systems are the foundation on which internet > software is built. And the promotional material for the "summit" made > that much pretty clear in its placement of the word "Linux". > > If Tim would like an introduction to Jordan, may I suggest he gets a > reference to me from Greg Lehey, and then I'll introduce him to Jordan. > Of course, Jordan's not quite the jackbooted dictator(*) that Linus is, > and other members of the FreeBSD effort have strong ideas of their own. > > (*) This is humour, for those of you that missed it. > They are still in the popular uprising phase, and aren't seeing the error of their ways yet. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message