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Cc: Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:12:37PM -0500, Brandon Gooch wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com> wrote:
> > On Aug 24, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Vadim Goncharov wrote:
> >
> >>> walking all over the competition. šBuzz is a critical part of selling ideas in
> >>> open source (for better or worse), and there's no reason we can't play in that
> >>> game a bit while maintaining our boring and staid personalities :-).
> >>
> >> Sure. And taking surveys into account, we could just simply summarize:
> >> FreeBSD needs marketing :-)
> >
> > That begs the question of to whom FreeBSD should be marketed. Home users? Small-office admins? Datacenter admins? Embedded developers?
> >
> > - Milo Hyson
> > Chief Scientist
> > CyberLife Labs, Inc.
> >
> 
> FreeBSD should be marketed to DEVELOPERS.
> 
> Users of all skill levels have needs, wants, and ideas. Developers are
> the ones who implement these things in code. I think the question is
> "how do we lure the developers?".

Needs for developers: VTune, OpenCL, CUDA, Java sertification
platform, more stronge binary compatibility with older version.