Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:20:23 -0500 (EST) From: Steven Ji <jsteve@research.poc.net> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: snotty quotes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901041511530.18709-100000@ouch.Oof.NET> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901041511220.18035-100000@ouch.Oof.NET>
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> Who cares? I mean seriously, why would I care? How would the answer to > that question help me to advocate freebsd? I just thought I'd question the validity of the quote. Knowing what people are saying is part of advocating FreeBSD -- no? Obviously, since you wrote a 191-word reply, you care a whole lot more than I do. cheers, sdj > Who cares? I mean seriously, why would I care? How would the answer to > that question help me to advocate freebsd? > > And what exactly does your message accomplish, other than pontificating > on some issue? yes, I like apple pie too, but I don't announce it to > freebsd-advocacy every so often. What would you have us to do, as people > interested in advocating FreeBSD? Should we go beat up this person who > dared to have that quote in his sig? Was that quote included by someone > advocating FreeBSD? If not, then why bitch about it here? Yes, it gives > you a good feeling to preach to the choir, but it's odd for you to complain > about wasted bandwidth in a message which sees utterly pointless (and cross- > posted to multiple freebsd lists, to make matters even more ludicrous). > > So, sure, fire up the troops by repeating 'snotty quotes' that you found > in some *archive* of a linux mailing list, and then talk about awful it > is that others are "causing tension" between linux and BSD communities. > This does not strike me as very productive. > > --- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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