On Tuesday, 18 May 1999 at  1:46:45 +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <3740C502.41C67EA6@spacestar.net> ginsbach@spacestar.net (Brian Ginsbach) writes:
>> Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
>>>
>>> If yes, read the following:
>>>
>>> http://www.pioneerpress.com/tech/docs/tech1.htm
>>
>> Yea, I was rather ticked when after I finished reading the article
>> in today's paper.  The PP has a "Tech" section every monday.  I was
>> looking forward to some balance when I saw the "BSDs".  Then he
>> forgets NetBSD!  But then I should have expected such from Julio
>> Ojeda-Zapat.  He sometimes seems kind of clueless IHMO.
>>
>> Anybody written him to set him straight?  A gentle reminder that
>> the BSDs are three not two!  Maybe we should point him to Peter
>> Seebach's Mom for an interview, since her byline was St. Paul, MN.
>
> Not to my knowledge, but we should all do.  And point out that
> either he did not do his job researching, or he has a bias against
> NetBSD.

People, I think you're seeing this from the wrong perspective.  It's
my guess that he didn't do *any* research, he took the information
that (primarily the OpenBSD people) dropped into his lap.  I'm
subscribed to all three -advocacy groups, and the NetBSD list is by
far the least active.  If you want to get people to publish stories
about NetBSD, write them!  If they're of any interest at all to their
readership, they'll publish them.

On the other hand, consider that in-fighting, either amongst the *BSDs
or between *BSD and Linux, is not what they're looking for.  That's
why I've been writing more and more about *BSD as a group rather than
any specific flavour.  One way to get all three (four?) BSDs more
recognized is to compare them to Linux distributions.  At the moment
there's the perception that "Linux is one system, but there are lots
of fragmented BSDs", and people seem to see that as negative.  I'd
like to see more stories along the line of "BSD UNIX was the driving
force of software development in the 1980s.  Now three groups offer
the latest version, stripped of AT&T code, for free".

Greg
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