Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:06:00 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rod Taylor <dark@idiotswitch.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PR broken? was Re: Linux not FreeBSD? Message-ID: <4.2.0.56.19990623080332.00b39730@localhost> In-Reply-To: <99062307185100.00965@a11.idiotswitch.org> References: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906232027460.14217-100000@bragg>
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FreeBSD's PR is known to be very broken indeed. This subject has been beaten to death on the lists. Unless some folks see the light or radical action is taken, FreeBSD will be doomed to poor support due to inadequate evangelism and poor PR. --Brett Glass At 07:12 AM 6/23/99 +0000, Rod Taylor wrote: >On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Greg Quinlan wrote: > > > > > Again yet another high profile company jumping in to bed with Linux. > > > I think FBSD needs a bit of PR work? > > > > Okay, so what are you doing about it, or is this a SEP? > > > >I tried once to convince a small local computer store who had decided to do >pre-installs of RedHat linux to do a few other linux distributions as well as >atleast 1 bsd distribution. I was ready to buy a couple of computers if they >did FreeBSD. > >Their responce, was basically "They're not in the news much, so they can't be >very good products. We want to sell the best to our customers". Aside from >hte fact that their pc speakers are help in with hot glue... They stick to >that principle. > >Solution? Make sure when people do big things with FreeBSD, they do atleast a >minor press release. None of this Matrix stuff where they really don't want to >do one. Somehow we gotta make BSD a buzzword. > >By doing that however, we know that a bunch of lamers who don't know anything >and spend all their time in IRC asking where dir and copy went (aliased in >redhat) will begin to appear more frequently. Can't ban them all.... > >-- > >Rod Taylor > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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