Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:42:38 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and memetics Message-ID: <19990422164235.A7013@holly.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990422144951.00c60f00@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 03:10:34PM -0600 References: <4.2.0.32.19990421150131.04614650@localhost> <4.2.0.32.19990420204456.00b25160@localhost> <4.2.0.32.19990420075641.00b1a5f0@localhost> <199904201841.NAA05137@whizkidtech.net> <4.2.0.32.19990420204456.00b25160@localhost> <19990421102449.B224@whizkidtech.net> <4.2.0.32.19990421150131.04614650@localhost> <19990422153804.B2321@whizkidtech.net> <4.2.0.32.19990422144951.00c60f00@localhost>
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On Thu, Apr 22, 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > >> Jordan is attempting to position FreeBSD exclusively as > >> a server operating system, and is actively steering developers toward > >> another platform: Linux. These are losing and damaging strategies. > > > >Are they? Is he? > > If you have not seen this, then you may not have taken the time to > become adequately informed about the marketing and positioning of > FreeBSD (what little is currently done). The slogan "The Power To Serve" > appears on the FreeBSD Web site and on many of the proomotional > materials. Representatives of the FreeBSD project and of Walnut > Creek CD-ROM actively steer desktop users and software developers > (ALL software developers, even if they develop server software) to > Linux. What you've missed is that FreeBSD representatives in fact do *not* steer users towards Linux. Where do you get this idea, anyway? > Do not assume that what worked on you -- a sample of one -- is necessarily > shrewd or the correct way to go. MILLIONS of people choose Linux over > FreeBSD and stick with it. How many times have you actively targeted users to get them to use FreeBSD? -- Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> I bet the human brain is a kludge. - Marvin Minsky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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