From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Sep 17 8:47:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3382837B42C for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:47:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8HFlhs11382; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:47:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:47:43 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Anthony Chavez Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RWS Message-ID: <20000917084743.I15156@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000916133833.H12955@magus.users.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Anthony Chavez [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." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message