Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:33:35 -0600 From: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and memetics Message-ID: <371C822F.5AAE408F@thuntek.net> References: <4.2.0.32.19990419093753.0454e490@localhost> <19990418080429.A37740@holly.dyndns.org> <4.2.0.32.19990419171213.03ed5730@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > > Mike Avery has raised many good points here. > > >If you compare OS's to religous movements (5), religous movements > >rarely rely on a single way of getting converts. Even churches work > >hard and in varied ways to get visitors through the door, and to keep > >them in the fold after that. Advertisements, special programs, > >personal testimony, booths at fairs, billboards, television programs, > >courting the news media for coverage all have their place. And none > >of them are enough by themselves. If we want to grow, are we doing > >enough? As a newbie, I don't know, I just want to raise the question. > > There are, indeed, many modes of advocacy, just as there are many > modes of advertising. > > To understand why, it helps to see FreeBSD's situation from the > perspective of "memetics" -- a set of useful ideas based on > concepts from the fields of sociology, psychology, genetics, and > comparative religion. > [snipped] Now, _that_ was well said, non-judgemental and very much worth reading. -- Don Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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