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Date:      Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:47:43 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Anthony Chavez <magus@magus.users.xmission.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RWS
Message-ID:  <20000917084743.I15156@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000916133833.H12955@magus.users.xmission.com>; from magus@magus.users.xmission.com on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 01:38:33PM -0600
References:  <20000916133833.H12955@magus.users.xmission.com>

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* Anthony Chavez <magus@magus.users.xmission.com> [000916 12:35] wrote:
> Looks like RWS is going to be in town (Logan, UT) next Tuesday,
> advocating GNU/Linux and autographing.  I'm half-tempted to go wearing
> one of my many BSD t-shirts and ask him to autograph my copy of
> McKusick's book.  Unfortunately, I don't have the balls. :-)
> 
> Anyone got any good ~serious~ questions that I could ask him, or ways to
> advocate BSD in a ~positive~light~ in such a situation?  I don't want to
> piss on his presentation, but I would like to at least get people
> interested in BSD as an alternative.
> 
> Wes, are you going to attend?  Could use your presence for morale. :-)

I would be pretty conservative, after all it is RMS, and you don't want
to look like a bitter BSD advocate.  I would simple ask for an encore
of the Free Software Song then slip in some earplugs or flee.

>;)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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