Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 15:12:50 +1100 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com>, Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Technical questions about BSD Message-ID: <19990306151250.B9826@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <36DFCDA7.4E68@echidna.com>; from Graeme Tait on Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 07:27:19AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903041636120.299-100000@nyc-ny78-59.ix.netcom.com> <19990305084425.15393.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> <36DFCDA7.4E68@echidna.com>
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On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 07:27:19AM -0500, Graeme Tait wrote: > Greg Black wrote: > > > > > > > I'm in the process of writing a feature story [...] > > > > > > > > Why bother? You're clearly not qualified. > > > > > > I don't think it matters if he is qualified or not. FreeBSD gets > > > unfortunately little press, and can use all it can get. > > > > This is akin to saying that any publicity is better than no > > publicity. But that's a philosophy that, while suited to > > predatory scum like billg, has no place in rational people's > > thinking. > > > > > Even if his > > > story has very little useful information, it can't be more harmful than > > > no story. > > > > I happen to disagree. > > <snip> > > > I think the problem here is that your response to the journalist would more > likely result in *bad* press for FreeBSD than no press. > > > > If this means anything, why slam an iconoclastic opinion? > > > It's not the iconoclasm that's in question as I see it, but the way it was > expressed. In particular the ad hominem nature of your response. here we all go again ... crusade time again. take time out jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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