From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 1 7:57: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3A5150BD for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 07:57:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03772; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 08:56:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36DAB8B2.48F26C86@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 08:56:34 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Yost Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Linux PR firestorm disaster (w.r.t. FreeBSD) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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