Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 14:20:39 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, fpawlak@execpc.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement Message-ID: <199810030420.OAA19288@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981002215535.040ed100@mail.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Oct 2, 98 10:01:15 pm"
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Brett Glass wrote: > Frank and I are not the only people who perceive that FreeBSD is plagued by a > lack of investment in marketing. Walnut Creek doesn't seem willing to > make that investment. > > Now, what would you have us do? Sit back and let FreeBSD lose out to Linux? > Break away from Walnut Creek by publishing another version, thereby fragmenting > the market and, possibly, development efforts? Neither is a better alternative > than getting Walnut Creek off its duff, but the latter may be necessary if we > don't see things change soon. Maybe you'd be better off looking at other FreeBSD distributions like http://www.cybernet.com/ (NetMAX), for example, and going out to tell the world about them. My guess is that people subscribed to this list are tired of hearing you have verbal tantrums. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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