From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Aug 3 20:13:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from snafu.adept.org (adsl-63-193-112-19.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.112.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E77C152EB for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 20:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@snafu.adept.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by snafu.adept.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA13648; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 20:12:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 20:12:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Hoskins To: Wes Peters Cc: Stephen McKay , Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Selfstyled arrogance? In-Reply-To: <37A68DFA.156FDFD3@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Or it might do neither, and continue to have a long and fruitful life. Why > is it that so many FreeBSD users define "success" as "replacing XXX" where > XXX is variously Windows NT, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS, and even VxWorks I agree. We should focus upon making FreeBSD a more secure, robust, reliable OS... not merely upon 'world domination'. Religious fanatics so obsessed with making their OS the 'only' OS is one of the problems with M$. We don't need to mimic that behavior. I'm not saying we don't need to advocate FreeBSD - I merely believe that we should not become so obsessed with getting 'more users' that we loose sight of the development philosophy/goals that has/have made the FreeBSD Project what it is today. --Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message