From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 4 4:54:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from shell.monmouth.com (shell.monmouth.com [205.231.236.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428EB14FE0 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 04:54:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pechter@pechter.ddns.org) Received: from pechter.ddns.org (bg-tc-ppp238.monmouth.com [209.191.60.239]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id HAA26814; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:53:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by pechter.ddns.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) id HAA00598; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:53:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pechter) From: Bill Pechter Message-Id: <199903041253.HAA00598@pechter.ddns.org> Subject: Re: Crongratulations to all at USENIX In-Reply-To: <199903040217.NAA14038@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Andy Newman at "Mar 4, 1999 1:17: 8 pm" To: atrn@zeta.org.au (Andy Newman), freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:53:23 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com X-Phone-Number: 908-389-3592 X-OS-Type: FreeBSD 3.0-Stable X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > John Dyson writes: > > FreeBSD's future is not hanging on technical excellence right now, > > but on marketing. The technical excellence is a given. > > Although I didn't say it in the mail I was hoping to imply that > this technical excellence be used as a marketing angle ... Which > platform do researchers use for their Unix R&D? And why they pick > FreeBSD. Interesting, but Lucent's now using Linux. (*I keep pushing FreeBSD but Linux has more mind share*) Bill --- Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.nws.net|pechter@pechter.ddns.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message