From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 4 20:30:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C72106566C for ; Fri, 4 May 2012 20:30:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu) Received: from edge2.cs.stonybrook.edu (edge2.cs.stonybrook.edu [130.245.9.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDAA08FC08 for ; Fri, 4 May 2012 20:30:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from HUBCAS1.cs.stonybrook.edu (130.245.9.206) by edge2.cs.stonybrook.edu (130.245.9.211) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Fri, 4 May 2012 16:30:59 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (108.46.203.161) by hubcas1.cs.stonybrook.edu (130.245.9.212) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.323.3; Fri, 4 May 2012 16:30:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4FA43C35.9000801@cs.stonybrook.edu> Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 16:29:41 -0400 From: Richard Yao User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/10.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dieter BSD References: <20120504191111.153790@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <20120504191111.153790@gmx.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigEEB82F1BFF1766A17293776C" X-Originating-IP: [108.46.203.161] Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 20:30:05 -0000 --------------enigEEB82F1BFF1766A17293776C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 05/04/12 15:11, Dieter BSD wrote: > *WHY* is Linux so much more popular than the BSDs? Linux is popular because of RedHat. Corporate executives like to pay for software because it shifts responsibility away from them in the event that something goes wrong. If something goes wrong with RHEL, the company's legal department can hold RedHat responsible. If something goes wrong with FreeBSD, the board will hold the executive responsible. This makes paying RedHat for Linux very attractive and by extension, it makes Linux very popular. If you want BSD to surpass Linux in popularity, you are going to have to start a company like BSDi, except this time it will need to avoid a crippling lawsuit. --------------enigEEB82F1BFF1766A17293776C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPpDw4AAoJELFAT5FmjZuE27wP/j7v5ioNQltXSD0OxtbUqkyZ 0QOZlymd1ccQoPzPre1F+aG3sybFd/0z411okjaIM3yJa0H2eUAIdL3zUW3ODsyE wIrj+Zd4mqyH6QIFfpAi15MLUZGYswPnBp9Q79IzJfKNUIFBxQWNJ2swG6QAWMVN 0YUPc7fpYDZji9AC/EItKvKnynhDlmG/WO2/5iOjqhN/f2ey/L1D7tdVWy9F4D40 xV19xuCHyK2OOMb07rrdy+06NX4oa7h1q02Z9YBuzwyWF40uhheSa/4nVQCaoxZ3 ulpbt+L+UZ3jroT6FTu+syQWRESIwl6X/rIATmZ4blE397/5t5Zhufz4W0etPHxN BNTbayIWsBoPBEXfGJtq7FH0AR8ZCGdbgAsoEyskwxgbcPxuDRbQ2gXUKsByek4t sOgwUrKt52mLKJrr/15Wicbr0Qn+5vmVbTMX6QzAMInlwUWYmc6qsABuoTsqAOUM 0/tw5r9OZzQrdaEn6sBrPpeXdthQa7BdtzHM6kX0daZdQd5Uld9t980CPhSuApeG XI+u0/vJusd+E1vrBwGG9HI3OFVDnhPwpMLFB7vA/it4tGazlCnwHSBsipn8wQ4/ DNbhRRSAD0n5r+/bYq+CVdvUZBqJQmfFYJ9doNX9MPbRBOj91Z5DeLu/wONPdxEE f1uTcEllbR+qbDzQY409 =YCfw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigEEB82F1BFF1766A17293776C--