Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:48:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: stox@enteract.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Linux PR firestorm disaster (w.r.t. FreeBSD) Message-ID: <199902282148.OAA06378@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902272346340.66146-100000@m4.stox.sa.enteract.com> from "Kenneth P. Stox" at Feb 28, 99 00:13:06 am
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> <RANT MODE> > > OK folks, let me make this clear, GET A CLUE!! > > The endless bickering between a minority of the Linux and FreeBSD > communities is completely counter-productive. Positioning FreeBSD against > Linux is about as useful as getting a job for the Microsoft PR department > as far as getting the real goals achieved. You are missing the point, I think. He isn't talking about "market share" here any more, he is talking about "press share". Right now, Linux has the dominant "press share" of any OS (I guess it's a monopoly... }B^p). > Just a silly thought to put into you heads, have you ever thought that > just maybe, the instigators of many of these arguments in public forums > just might be professional Microsoft evangelists ? We might be playing > right into their hands. Does the idea of "Divide and conquer" come to > mind? > > </RANT MODE> No, I don't think they are professional Microsoft evangelists; but I thing that they are the beginnings of a more professional form of BSD evangelist, and I think that scares a lot of people. A good evangelist tends to have a lot of control over the direction of that which he or she is evangelizing. If you are carrying a flag, and a professional flag carrier comes along to walk with you, and attracts several other people to walk with you as well, and then you hand them the flag while you tie your shoes, there's no telling where that flag is going to be carried. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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