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

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 11:15 AM 3/9/99 -0500, Wandered Inn wrote:
 
>Again, you make a statement without backing it up.  Provide some linkage
>to Linux or Mac advocates who have intentionally created a group such as
>your 'Raving Loonies' to promote their products.

How about:

http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/advocacy_tactics.html

http://www.kickbutt.com/

http://www.macmarines.com/

http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/messages13/digest1309/message004.html

http://macrules.com/users/ammo/

http://www.saracen.com/ajp1.html
  The above links all discuss "guerrilla" advocacy tactics to be used by
  the "Mac faithful."

http://www.javalobby.org/ (Look, in particular, at their "volunteer structure.")
 This group has piled on Microsoft heavily in Microsoft's IRC chats about
 its J++ products, as well as in many online forums.

http://www.teamos2.org/
 This group's most vociferous advocacy went on in CompuServe forums (see
 the CIS archives).

http://electriclichen.com/people/jgleason/newyorkrefund/refund_pictures.html
 Here are some pictures of a "Windows Refund Day" protest. Note that
 one West Coast group that was involved with Windows Refund Day calls
 themselves the "Linux Mafia" -- a name that has implications a lot worse 
 than "Raving Loonies." It was this group that excluded users of
 ALL commercial operating systems from its event.

>I don't discount the
>fact that their are advocates of either product out there who would fit
>this description, but I don't believe that anyone has gone out and tried
>to 'create' a group as such and suggested they openly 'flame, bash and
>bait' people.

This is only one proposed category of participant in a much larger effort.

--Brett Glass