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From: chuck@ccrc.wustl.edu (Chuck Cranor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.security.unix
Subject: Re: *BSD* Security WWW/Mailing List?
Date: 21 Apr 1997 13:37:04 -0500
Organization: Washington University,  St. Louis MO.
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.970421074638.789X-100000@reflections.eng.mindspring.net>,
>You know, it really is unfair that Linux gets all this good press while
>the BSD'ers are discounted as a bunch of petty, bickering short-sighted
>nincompoops.  Watching the four BSD factions go at each other here, I am
>mystified how people got that misconception in the first place.

No, what is unfair is that people look at the postings of about 4 people
on USENET, use that as a basis to judge four entire projects, and then
post to USENET about it.   This shows both a lack of thought and poor 
judgment (of course the original thread shows that as well... gee guys,
stop bickering and do something useful!).

But, if you want to play this game, then go read comp.os.linux.advocacy 
and you'll see that the so-called "good press" linux users are all too happy
to rabidly attack anyone who uses the "wrong" distribution of Linux, 
members of project GNU, a BSD OS, MAC OS, Solaris, and (god forbid!) 
Microsoft Windows.


Lars Wirzenius wrote an excellent text on "Advocating Linux" (the ideas
behind it can also be applied to BSD or whatever).   It would be nice
if more of us read and followed it.    Check it out:

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/texts/advocating-linux.html

chuck
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>>Chuck Cranor, Graduate Student, Computer and Communications Research Center<<
>>Washington University, St. Louis MO    http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/chuck <<