From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 10 18:06:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09234 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:06:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from huron.nvl.virginia.edu (adrian@mail.nvl.Virginia.EDU [128.143.244.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09186 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:06:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@nvl.virginia.edu) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by huron.nvl.virginia.edu (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id VAA14229; Sun, 10 May 1998 21:05:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 21:05:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Garance A Drosihn cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advocating for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 May 1998, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:17 AM -0700 5/10/98, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > In any case, this all segues nicely into an opportunity to air a pet > > peeve of mine here, [...], and that's that we waste TOO MUCH BLOODY > > TIME on the pointless exercise of jumping up and down like a bunch > > of old ladies who've just seen a naked man ("Oooh! Wouldya look at > > that!") every time some new Linux article comes out or somebody says > > something nasty about FreeBSD in a public forum. > > > > I'm all for playing a reasonable defensive strategy, don't get me > > wrong, but there also comes a point where you're just spending too > > damn much time reacting to your opponents moves and are not really > > engaged in formulating your own strategy. > > I agree. > Yup, it's hard not to agree. For my part, I have taken to writting level-headed messges to the authors of various articles, either priasing their thurough coverage of the free software/OS topics or alternately gently pointing out their errors or other deficiencies. Letters to the editor indicating that a particular magazine has gone up in your estimation due to a particually good article is useful as well. Well, that's just my small means of contributing. Something tells me that this is where a lot of the linux newbies spent their time in years past. Hopefully in the future years we will reap similar rewards. BTW, you'd be surpised that I actually get responses saying thanks and "gee, I wasn't aware of that". I guess I'm not whinging too petulantly. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message