From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 13:43:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C489737B401 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 13:43:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.server.rpi.edu (smtp1.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E955B43F3F for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 13:43:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp1.server.rpi.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4GKh1CS001454; Fri, 16 May 2003 16:43:01 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <9ED84436-87C3-11D7-B713-000393A335A2@mac.com> References: <9ED84436-87C3-11D7-B713-000393A335A2@mac.com> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 16:43:00 -0400 To: Larry Sica From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a public relations opportunity for BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 20:43:04 -0000 At 1:27 PM -0400 5/16/03, Larry Sica wrote: >On Friday, May 16, 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >>The fact that "you" (the generic you) are starting to >>advertise that *you* are innocent is most certainly a >>direct result and thus an implied comment on the guilt of >>Linux. It's like saying "I won't comment on whether the >>incumbent mayor stole the car he's driving, but just this >>morning I happened to decide that I should wave around the >>bill-of-sale for my own car and thus you should vote for me". >>It is a campaign of marketing-through-FUD. >> > >That is not a good analogy. In this case there is obvious >proof that FreeBSD does not suffer from this potential issue. >Pointing this out could be just a matter of saying here this >is the current climate. IMO opinion it is a perfectly accurate analogy. You never spread FUD about *your* product, you spread it about the *other* product. In this case we would be spreading the FUD that "Hey, linux might be guilty, and SCO might sue you for running it! And Look! You won't get sued if you run FreeBSD!". That's my opinion. At this point I think I've stated it well enough. I do not intend to debate it further. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu