Re: Brett Glass's postings to mailing.freebsd.chat

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Brett Glass wrote:
> I'm not "intentionally pissing them off;" all of my postings are
> carefully written and well reasoned. You haven't seen me fly off
> the handle, and you won't. I can't help it if someone else suddenly
> engages in ad hominem attacks.
> 
> >Worse yet, doing it, under the facade you've suggested is underhanded,
> >devious and unprofessional.
> 
> There's no facade here. As I mentioned in a recent message to Jamie
> Love, I advocate full disclosure and would NEVER advocate that anyone
> say anything that is untrue. I'm even patently disclosing what I
> believe are the elements of an effective strategy for OS advocacy
> on a public mailing list.

   Jezzzz Brett, it is amazing how statements like these
   lead to misunderstandings.  jl

<-----------from Brett's post on FreeBSD  Chat----------->

The first thing is to form several teams out of those who are
active on these lists. Here are the four I envision. (Each
will appeal to certain personality types, as you'll see.)

1) The Raving Loonies. This is the fun one. You get to go
totally over the top on public forums, starting flame wars,
bashing and baiting the competition. Think "Team OS/2," but 
even more out of control. The more fuss this "lunatic fringe" 
makes, the better. The purpose of this group is really not to 
sell the product but merely to draw attention to it; after that,
the next group takes over. So, it needs to be the most slavering,
slobbering, fanatical, over-the-top kind of "advocacy" --
advocacy which sometimes backfires but GETS ATTENTION. Asbestos
underwear required to endure flames.


-- 
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
I can be reached at love@cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org