From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 5 12:35:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B1515584 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 12:35:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01919; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 12:34:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 12:34:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt011n65.san.rr.com To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Andrew Gallatin , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: TCP stack hackers take a bow In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > It was very annoying that the person who wrote the local News & > > Observer article seemed disappointed that we were not running linux & > > probably because of that, didn't mention the OS at all in her article. > > It's sad it has to be that way. I can't think of another product that > is treated so poorly in the wake of another's success. Hmmmmmmm... OS/2 maybe? :) (Which is not to say that IBM didn't work very hard at shooting themselves in their collective feet at every opportunity.) But seriously folks, this kind of thing happens all the time in the computer business. The best way to handle it is to keep smiling and talk to the ones who will listen, and report accurately. The word is getting out slowly. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message