From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Feb 23 15:16:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A42110E1 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:16:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA79580; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:18:10 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@pop1.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199902232143.OAA14867@usr06.primenet.com> References: <64893.919798475@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 23, 99 11:34:35 am Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:16:51 -0500 To: Terry Lambert , jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: SCO revamps UnixWare with Linux features Cc: jackv@earthling.net, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:43 PM +0000 2/23/99, Terry Lambert wrote: >> I don't know whether you just took a wrong turn on your way to the >> gents or something, but this is not the linux-advocacy list. By the >> logic(?) I see being displayed in your own selections, we might just >> as well start posting Microsoft's NT press releases here since NT is >> obviously the bigger competitor. > >I think that NT isn't getting as much press as Linux, or he would. > >Basically, I view Jack's postings as "here's an advocacy project". They strike me as more of "here's the complete press release about something related to Linux, without a single word (either in the press release or from Jack) about how this relates to freebsd". I can imagine these messages could be intended to help freebsd advocacy in some way, if Jack would have at least mentioned a connection, so the messages did not irritate me the way they seemed to have irritated Jordan. Still, I do not see freebsd advocacy as a place for people to copy complete press releases about every operating system EXCEPT FreeBSD, in some imagined effort to "encourage" us to write stuff about freebsd. Similarly, I do not expect freebsd-current to contain a million answers to programming questions about WindowsNT, under the guise of "encouraging" us to write more programs for FreeBSD. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message