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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 00:34:24 -0500
From: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
Cc: netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Something I noticed on the Yahoo site
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In-Reply-To: <199812100519.WAA22900@beer.org>; from Herb Peyerl on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 10:19:22PM -0700

On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 10:19:22PM -0700, Herb Peyerl wrote:

> There was a booth at the technical conference in New Orleans but there 
> wasn't one at LISA because:
> 
> 	a) you didn't tell us you were volunteering to pay for booth
> 	space.  The booth for the technical conference was donated by
> 	Usenix.

Hm. What do booths cost? I may be wrong, but I think that OpenBSD might have
been granted a free booth. We might have asked, I guess.

> 	b) There was nothing to sell at the booth.

CDs? Anyway, having folks see a NetBSD booth would have if nothing else
been nicely promotional.

> 	c) Some of us have other lives and don't have the time or energy
> 	to do this all the time.

Ah, then it could have rested on the backs of those of us who have no
outside lives. I'd have taken vacation days to man a booth, even though
I'm probably not sufficiently well-versed in NetBSD's guts to be completely
useful for this.

> The distinct lack of any action on the -advocacy list should be a hint
> that people seem full of ideas but a little short on implementation.

I don't think things live in stasis. They grow, or they decline. Since no
other operating system provides the clean multi-platform support that is
NetBSD's hallmark, it's a shame it's losing support, I guess, and leaving
a void in its wake. Perhaps there isn't a serious need for NetBSD, or
something. Whatever. At least open-source Unix as a whole is thriving.

-- 
Mason Loring Bliss..mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us...acheron.ddns.org/mason
"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments
  dropped from day's caravan."--Rabindranath Tagore..awake ? sleep : dream;