Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 19:59:04 +0000 From: "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, phil grainger <freebsd@pronet.net.au> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complimentary article on FreeBSD Message-ID: <980611195904.ZM9029@darkstar.connect.com> In-Reply-To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> "Re: Complimentary article on FreeBSD" (Jun 11, 1:33pm) References: <v04011700b1a4c00a8ccd@[128.113.24.47]> <v04011702b1a5be70070c@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Jun 11, 1:33pm, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Subject: Re: Complimentary article on FreeBSD > At 3:32 PM +1000 6/11/98, phil grainger wrote: > > this actually highlights a major problem with the freebsd project, > > these apple guys are cvsing their rapsody product of freebsd cvs > > sites all our work in making freebsd stable, fast, reliable and > > user friendly is going into apples coffers, ... > > Geez. > > I thought the article itself was good publicity. As such, I thought > it would be good news to pass along in the group of people who claim > to be interested in good publicity for FreeBSD. If you have problems > with the FreeBSD project, well, those are your problems, but I still > think the web article was good publicity. > > I also thought people might be particularly happy that this was an > article which actually used FreeBSD in the title, instead of talking > about Linux and only adding FreeBSD as a footnote. Now, admittedly, > it probably made the title because the word "FreeBSD" helped him to > have a cute title. But the article itself did say some nice things > about FreeBSD in specific, so it was more than just a cute title. > > But no, let's have another thread about someone's sour grapes. It > is so much more entertaining to bitch and moan than just read a damn > web page that's saying good things about a project we claim to be > interested in. Hear Hear!!!! Bitching and moaning is getting to be almost a hallmark of FreeBSD Advocacy. I agree why don't we take the make nice strokes we get, where ever thay are from, stop the bullshit and build on the positive. I have seen a lot of positives and good ideas surface and die here in the last three months to almost make one want to cry out enough already!!! BTW, This is not sour grapes regarding my rebuttal to UNIX Review, or to any of those remarking on the BSD/GPL license issues. It is directed at the attitude in general. Frank > > > a commercial freebsd would stop this problem or at least force > > apple to do the right thing > > In my own personal opinion, a commercial FreeBSD which intends to > *force* people to do much of anything would be much less appealing. > > Why do you hate Microsoft? Because it likes to force people to > do things whatever way it sees fit. To fight that, you intend > to force people to do different things, as *you* see fit. It is > time to review the lessons of "The Devil and Daniel Webster". > You don't beat the devil by following his practices. > > --- > 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 >-- End of excerpt from Garance A Drosihn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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