Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 17:50:23 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "David Shanes" <dshanes@personalogic.com> Cc: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <3980.892169423@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Apr 1998 13:37:44 PDT." <01f501bd63f7$597e4000$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>
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I was told by Eric Raymond (whom I met briefly at the Mozilla party)
that the *BSD people were deliberately excluded because there were too
many BSDs and they didn't want to get involved in any political issues
over it. I find these continuous allegations of the BSD world being
gratuitously and needlessly "split" (even though each *BSD seeks to
fill a different niche) by the Linux community to be rather tiresome
considering the amount of division in their own ranks and can only see
this as something of a double standard, but I've long since given up
on any hope of fair play from this particular crowd.
This and several other incidents of a similar nature has pretty much
convinced me that this crowd would rather prefer it if we really
didn't exist at all and is going to essentially conduct their
operations as if we didn't. Oh well. Perhaps it *IS* time to go on
the PR offensive here ("Why Linux doesn't work") since playing nice
guys hasn't appeared to have won us anything but lots of nice comments
from folks like Marc A. at netscape to the effect that "Linux is the
only free OS alternative." I'm getting tired of that, and if it's
going to take "breaking ranks" with the rest of the free OS community
to get our own message out, maybe it's time.
Jordan
> To All,
> This is the message that I sent Tim O'Reilly, the founder of O'Reilly
> and Associates. Next I will send you his response.
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com>
> To: tim@oreilly.com <tim@oreilly.com>
> Date: Thursday, April 09, 1998 11:45 AM
> Subject: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet"
>
>
> >Mr. O'reilly,
> > I applaud ORA's endorsement of Open Source software. It is a huge step
> >to gather together the "forefathers" of some of the most popular and stable
> >software in use on the Internet today.
> > Personally, I use FreeBSD and was wondering if there was any particular
> >reason that the developers of FreeBSD were not included in your "Freeware
> >Summit".
> > FreeBSD has much to offer over Linux and has a huge developer/user
> base,
> >including Yahoo! and CDROM.COM.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >David Shanes
> >_____________________________________________________
> >David Shanes 7535 Metropolitan Drive
> >dshanes@personalogic.com San Diego, CA 92108
> >Database Developer (619) 220-5800 x228
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> >http://www.PersonaLogic.com
> >
> >
>
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