From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 12 01:47:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA29464 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 01:47:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from main_sd1.artnetonline.com ([194.75.26.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA29452 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 01:47:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuehl@lgk.de) Received: from di05hh.bonline.net (di05hh.bonline.net [194.75.27.133]) by main_sd1.artnetonline.com (NTMail 3.03.0013/1.abqk) with ESMTP id ba311637 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 10:46:23 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 10:47:50 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: kuehl@lgk.de From: Lars Gerhard Kuehl To: Konrad Heuer Subject: Re: Let's Get FreeBSD Some Recognition Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, mtr@eclipse.net, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Ted Stein Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 12-May-98 Konrad Heuer wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 1998, Ted Stein wrote: > >> saw something like "We are both anti-Microsoft". I'd personally have to >> disagree there. I don't know about the rest of you, but I am certainly not >> against Microsoft. Above all, it does not further our efforts, as FreeBSD >> fans/advocates, to insult another OS, the most popular, nonetheless. Do us >> all a favor, focus on FreeBSD. We want to push FreeBSD because we LOVE >> FreeBSD, not because we HATE Microsoft. Leave them out of it. > > I agree. I do not. Forget to LOVE as well as to HATE - at least in this context. All these terms advertise FreeBSD as sandpit and its developers and supporters as lovely, playing children. Linux, much better described by that terms, has past that stage. For that reason it has got a market which must be aimed at. To be adult means not to be only fascinated by fire but to be able to manage it. Lars /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Ph: +49 40 54768010 Lars Gerhard Kuehl Fx: +49 40 54768012 Mo: +49 171 9307085 EDV-Beratung Em: kuehl@lgk.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message