Subject: Re: Someone please flame TwoCows
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 01/06/2001 19:49:07
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 January 2001 at 0:28:53 -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 hubert@feyrer.de wrote:
> >
> >> ... for this: http://bsd.tucows.com/conhtml/preview/74141.html
> > I may write an editorial about this for BSD Today. Feel free to send me
> > any thoughts on any points that I should cover.
> >
> > Even with all the misunderstandings, this review does give some valuable
> > feedback.
>
> Indeed. If you have the energy, you should write back to the author
> and point out the factual errors. "Ease of installation" isn't
> factual, it's subjective. I also think that you don't want this to
> look like "we're NetBSD, we're better than those other BSDs", but
> rather "we're BSD, thanks for your articles, but there are some
> errors in detail".
Yes, I understand it makes no sense to argue the opinions. I wrote a
response that hopefully clarifies some of the factual errors:
http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html
Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/