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From: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 16 Apr 1996 03:05:35 -0700
Organization: The FreeBSD Project
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In article <NELSON.96Apr15173839@ns.crynwr.com> nelson@ns.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:

   Depends on who you think you're competing with.  You're competing with
   Linux.  I'm competing with Windows.

That competition is in your mind, Russell.  If anyone's been spouting
rabidly competetive religious babble here, it has not been I!

   Right, and I think you're wasting your time.  But that's because
   you've given up the good fight.  *BSD will never amount to a hill of
   beans with an attitude like that.

An attitude like WHAT, Russell?  What's so hard to understand here?  I
want to keep working on my own project, a project in which I've
invested 3 years of my life and in which I fundamentally believe.  I
refuse to believe in your religion, however, so I'm an infidel who
must be scorned and insulted.  Great, I commend you on your
clear-headed and tolerant attitude (not!).

   "We can't win; let's not try." is the attitiude of a luser.  I
   wouldn't hire you to sweep my floor, Jordan.  Well, maybe *just* to
   sweep my floor.  But I'd be sure to inspect your work afterwards.

You're wrong, of course.  I think we can win certain things, just not
necessarily win the battles YOU want to win and or with YOUR choice of
weapons.  Clearly I feel that there's something here to be won (though
that's not the desktop) or I wouldn't be DOING this, Russell.  I also
give the Linux world full credit for doing things their way and making
the progress they have, such a pity that you seem constitutionally
unable to grant me the same courtesy.

However, I think the time for reasoning with you is long past here.
You've clearly run out of meaningful things to say and have fallen to
the last refuge of cheap insults and off-hand comments about how you
wouldn't hire me to sweep floors, conveniently neglecting for the
moment the fact that A) I'd never stoop to working for someone like
you in any capacity, and B) I'm probably a lot more likely to see your
resume' cross my desk than you're likely to see mine.  Your childish
remarks ensure that I'll be sure and file yours in the right place,
should that time ever come.. :-)

					Jordan
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project