From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 21 13:58:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA16779 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:58:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (0@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA16772 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:57:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA06337 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:58:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA26429 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:00:11 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:00:10 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In Email, michael butler wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > Terry Lambert questions: > > > QUESTION: Why has the interest been missing in the FreeBSD > > > camp, but not missing in other camps? > > > > "Good question. Anyone in the audience?" > > A lot of hype, near hysteria sometimes, resulting in factional outbursts of > near violent proportions (cf. "Linux or FreeBSD" in several newsgroups). That, and probably the "personality cult" Linus has inspired. I would suggest that there is a similar but smaller cult with Stallman. And the potential probably exists to form an OpenBSD Theo DeRadt cult. Jordan K. Hubbard, much to his credit, is not the type of person likely to inspire a personality cult....he lacks eccentricity. I'd also suggest that this personality-cult produces the same type of "multitudes of `worker ants'" force that you discuss. -- tIM...HOEk "The approach is in error; it is bad engineering methodology." - Terry Lambert.