Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:38:27 +0400 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> Cc: Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve Message-ID: <20110826093827.GA21676@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <CALBk6yLnfo0EXdhXGF011Od%2Ba184eLbCWAwARBsshmY8XSGOmg@mail.gmail.com> References: <slrnj4oiiq.21rg.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <705869186.20110819012421@serebryakov.spb.ru> <slrnj4r3rl.2853.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108190911480.93669@fledge.watson.org> <slrnj5atk2.7nm.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <04EEADEE-380F-48A0-BBBF-1A1673228F90@cyberlifelabs.com> <CALBk6yLnfo0EXdhXGF011Od%2Ba184eLbCWAwARBsshmY8XSGOmg@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
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