From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 23 10:23:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bytor.rush.net (bytor.rush.net [209.45.245.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 465A015122; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:23:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by bytor.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25166; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:20:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:20:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch To: Brett Glass Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Charles Henrich a Star? In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990413175507.04df8100@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett, I know this is a bit late, but some of us do a fine job af "marketing" and PR at a grassroots level, most of my students are now starting to use FreeBSD and consider it a more than viable alternative to Linux, this was by saying "Hey I respect Linux, but take a look at this" I've burned mroe copies of my 3.1 CD's in the past 2 months than I ever have. Another thing is, YOUR PR is very effective at inflaming people, not gaining them to your side. Thats what it is effective in doing. Not in promoting FreeBSD (at least from my standpoint) JOrdan is just the type of spokeperson that got some major FreeBSD representation at one of the Open Source discussion forums lately, as well as getting Eric Raymond to agree to wear a FreeBSD polo shirt if sent to him. You are just the person who tends to piss people off. -Pat ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking "Wow, everyone looks different in Real Life (tm)"- Nathan Dorfman meeting people at FUNY "Suicide is painless, switching to NT isn't."- Unknown ___________________________________________________________________________ On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > My kind of PR is EFFECTIVE PR. Your PR, which has burdened FreeBSD > for many years, has set the OS so far behind Linux in market share > and visibility that it may never catch up. > > --Brett Glass > > At 04:26 PM 4/13/99 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >> With all due respect, PR is not one of Jordan's strong points. > > > >With all due respect, *your kind* of PR is not one of my strong points > >and I hope to god it never is. That would be like deciding to become > >a divorce lawyer. :-) > > > >- Jordan > > > > 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