Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 13:20:16 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com>, freebsd@atipa.com (Atipa), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <21723.895695616@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 May 1998 20:05:08 -0000." <980520200508.ZM1604@darkstar.connect.com>
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> This is your lament. You speak with mixed voices. First you favor to fight > your own battles, as do I. Then you say you don't care whether M$ has you on > the hit list. I have seen numerous post where you expressed the joy and I see absolutely nothing "mixed" about that at all and can't even imagine a position where they would be perceived as such. > where free software is used, but don't try to convince me that a person with > your passion being involved with the FreeBSD project won't feel a big loss if > M$ or anyone else sould crush the project. That my friend is impingment on y Ummm.. How can I explain this. It's sort of like that old saw about how a person has the right to his own (conflicting) opinions and any right-thinking person will fight for that person's ability to _have_ an opinion conflicting with his own. If Microsoft stomps us flat and the market "allows" this to happen by not embracing our technology instead then what's the reward for me in trying to lead a foolish and undeserving market away from the consequences of its own folly? None. That's only a recipe for heartache and I'll be much more inclined to return my attention to the much-neglected (for me) subject of Oceanography before I'll waste my time and energies in such fruitless pursuits. Fortunately, the market is neither so foolish nor undeserving as that at present, so that scenario isn't something I have to contend with. With any luck, we'll also manage to continue to reach a sigificant percentage of the market with our message and perhaps Microsoft will help us here and there by stepping on its dick and yielding us the occasional tactical advantage - who knows how it will go? Either way, it's really the _market_ that will and should decide this and if it it's savvy enough to adopt our solutions when they're the best available then cool - we're in! If not, well, we'll be redundant anyway and I can always go back to studying fish. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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