From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 18 22:35:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA16163 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:35:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pentagon.io.com (cmconn@pentagon.io.com [199.170.88.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA16149 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 05:35:47 GMT (envelope-from cmconn@pentagon.io.com) Received: (from cmconn@localhost) by pentagon.io.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA23641; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:35:44 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:35:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804190535.AAA23641@pentagon.io.com> From: Christopher Mark Conn To: dwilde1@ibm.net CC: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: makes you wonder... In-Reply-To: <35398553.F354E2DF@ibm.net> References: <199804181916.VAA14407@yedi.iaf.nl> <19980418213331.18062@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <35398553.F354E2DF@ibm.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Don Wilde writes: > We _are_ making a difference. InfoWorld is getting downright positive > about freeware in business, and Network World's editor asked me to speak > at NW+IOP on the basis of my use and satisfaction with FreeBSD. Patience > is necessary, and still more legwork. Just keep doing what we're doing: > making FreeBSD shine, boasting everywhere, and bashing others (except > MS!!!) as little as possible. We gain a lot from the Linux folks, too, > so I'd leave them to their path. My feeling is that those smart enough > to choose will choose FreeBSD when presented with the choice, and those > who aren't smart, won't, and we don't want them anyway. I'm kinda new to the free software world (I use GNU Emacs at work and will install FreeBSD on my Dell PII when I buy it in a few weeks) but a lot of the appeal of different OS's seems personality-driven, FreeBSD types seem to like stability and tradition more, Linux types seem more experimental, maybe? I think it's the combination of all of these personalities that make the free software world so interesting, gives us so many choices. As has been said many times, we have to keep in mind who the real enemy is :-) Looking forward to having my own 'workstation' at home (will sure beat sending mail on my current 'system', a WYSE terminal dialed in to my ISP)... Chris Conn cmconn@io.com Leander, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message