Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:55:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu> To: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Chat@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Hackers@freebsd.org, jtc@NetBSD.org Subject: Re: Free Systems Journal -- Philosophy Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970320215459.17791A-100000@keystone.westminster.edu> In-Reply-To: <33330802.3D353BFD@konnections.com>
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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, mike allison wrote: > Hello again: > > While we're a bit busy with this conversation about newsletters and > jounals, I just wanted to stand up and lay out my philosophy in regards > to what Free Systems Journal should be. > > First of all it has to be an organ (sorry bevis) for the issues that the > Free systems community faces. That is the ENTIRE community. Let no one > think that this community belongs any more to the Linux users than it > does to the FreeDOS or Minix users. We're all in this together. We > don't need to agree but we can't deal anyone out. I said my original > desire for this sprang from Linux Journal's continued open disregard of > other systems. That is not a negative stance for LJ, on the contrary, > it never claimed to be anything but. On the other hand, there has > always been a need for coverage of other systems in a responsive manner, > not as an aside to some greater issue. I assure you if LJ paid > attention to other systems, they wouldn't do it justice. I myself > wonder how it can be done, but we'll find a pole to revolve around and > then expand or contract based on community needs. > > I don't think any one person, or group, is more qualified to contribute > than another. A newbie might have just as pertinent a concern as anyone > else, and just as elegant a solution. There are many more newbies out > there than gurus. Unlike many of the people out there, a lot of us > don't have a guru to defer to. (Except the newsgroups, and we don't > always know who's answering the mail there.) > > I want this endeavor to become something useful to all of us, that we > can all have a stake in and be proud of. If the NetBSD folks do > something cool, or pull off a major installation, like say, to the > Justice Department, we should all be proud and pull a little closer. > > Our similarities are our strength our differences merely distractions. > Our goal should be to become smarter as individuals and to make > computing a transparent part of our lives (both from a control sense, > and a cost sense). I don't mind having to pay for good software, but I > do mind not being able to chose and bad software eventually becoming the > ONLY software. > > UNIX (Sorry to whomever owns the trademark this week) was always open in > this sense. It was the great equalizer. It has again become that great > equalizer. It has motivated people to create Free systems and that > includes free versions of some of the most popular, most expensive and > most controlled personal computing software. > > If you flood my office with contributions, I'll publish what I can. > What's really good I'll pass on to others to publish. There's no way > that we'll sit on a valuable article just to pump some imagined value > out of it. > > I'm open to any suggestions about how to provide this service. I'm a > book guy and magazines are new to us. But I'm become zealous about this > and I'm determined to see it through. > > Your thoughts are appreciated. I'm not a real member of these lists, so > please let me know what the right procedure is for joining. > > Thanks, > > -Mike Allison BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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