From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 10 15:19:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18760 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 15:19:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (root@mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18738 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 15:18:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA41078 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:18:36 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@pop1.rpi.edu Message-Id: 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> Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 18:22:04 -0400 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Advocating for FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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". --- 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