From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Sep 27 4:49:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4AE937B42C for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 04:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA39140; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 07:49:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 07:49:18 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Don Wilde Cc: Wes Peters , Joseph Scott , Bill Fumerola , cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wats so special about freeBSD? Message-ID: <20000927074918.A39110@blackhelicopters.org> References: <39D19089.6840F2A5@softweyr.com> <39D1A726.B2338D5B@Silver-Lynx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39D1A726.B2338D5B@Silver-Lynx.com>; from Don@Silver-Lynx.com on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 01:52:06AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 01:52:06AM -0600, Don Wilde wrote: > Yeah. I'm almost to the point where I advocate we start cracking systems > to prove the point. Government f*'s up too many times already because of > human frailty and greed to leave them the excuse of outside influences > to skate on, but they won't budge unless we scare their pants off. Folks have been there, and done that. There was that recent federal plea that boiled down to "We know, please leave us alone so we can catch up." Net result: nothing. No budget change, no decrease in crackz, nothing. The people on the front lines know it, but those who control the purse strings don't give a damn. It would take a *big* crack to get their attention, something big enough to risk their political careers. Anyway, this is a discussion better settled over a few drinks. Let's just agree that "IT 'professionals' suck" and get on with life. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message