Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 18:22:04 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Advocating for FreeBSD Message-ID: <v04011700b17bd689f9a2@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <24220.894784677@time.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Sat, 09 May 1998 23:36:40 EDT." <199805100340.XAA13121@zephyr.cybercom.net>
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At 12:17 AM -0700 5/10/98, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> In any case, this all segues nicely into an opportunity to air a pet
> peeve of mine here, [...], and that's that we waste TOO MUCH BLOODY
> TIME on the pointless exercise of jumping up and down like a bunch
> of old ladies who've just seen a naked man ("Oooh! Wouldya look at
> that!") every time some new Linux article comes out or somebody says
> something nasty about FreeBSD in a public forum.
>
> I'm all for playing a reasonable defensive strategy, don't get me
> wrong, but there also comes a point where you're just spending too
> damn much time reacting to your opponents moves and are not really
> engaged in formulating your own strategy.
I agree.
And as step in the right direction (IMO), I've changed the subject
to something about advocating FreeBSD instead of whining about the
fact that someone at a major company happened to mention Linux. I
hope Linux does well, more power to them.
I happen to prefer FreeBSD, and wonder what ideas people have to
advocate *for* FreeBSD instead of just getting miffed whenever
someone mentions Linux. I was hoping for a motto more catching
than "We're the operating system which wants to get mentioned
every time Linux gets mentioned".
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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