Subject: Re: We have an image problem...
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 01/07/2005 12:31:28
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:43:01AM +0000, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> [...]
> 
> What I'm noticing is: Hell, the Big Penguin himself doesn't understand that
> NetBSD doesn't sacrifice security nor usability on the altar of h/w diversity.
> 
> And, if we can't get our Message to people like him that make a semi-active
> effort to understand the open s/w unix-compatible OS world, then imagine what
> our messaging must seem to the average unix Joe on the street!

This is precisely because the average unix Joe thinks this way that he can make
such a statement. Even if he knows how things really are in *BSD, it wouldn't
serve his advocacy to get peoples corrected on this.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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