Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 08:56:34 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Linux PR firestorm disaster (w.r.t. FreeBSD) Message-ID: <36DAB8B2.48F26C86@softweyr.com> References: <v04104408b2fc8ab8acfc@[205.219.69.138]>
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Dave Yost wrote: > > Forgive me if this has been endlessly hashed and rehashed here. > I've just joined the mailing list. And run off at the keyboard without bothering to read the archives or lurk quietly for a while, apparently. > Some young lone wolf in Finland writes a barebones unix kernel > called linux, and it captures the imagination of the world. Later, > the press latches on to linux as THE alternative to Windows and NT > and creates a firestorm. Every time they do a report on linux, > they neglect even to mention FreeBSD. Please take the time to format your diatribes so they can be read before zapping them into our faces. Thank you. > This is a disaster, and it must be attacked with full force as > soon as possible or FreeBSD will become hopelessly marginalized. No, quite the opposite: the popularity of Linux in the press has helped us and will continue to help us. Please see this month's Daemons Advocate column at http://www.daemonnews.org/ for a contrasting point of view. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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