From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 21 6: 3:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F50F37B424 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 06:03:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@markemmanuel.org) Received: from [147.126.50.163] (unknown [147.126.50.163]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8433B5D8D for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 08:03:17 -0500 (CDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:03:29 -0500 Subject: Re: [dn-core] Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders Stand Together" From: markemmanuel To: FreeBSD advocacy Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <001a01c0e1d5$26ee29c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoted from the Book of Ted Mittelstaedt Ch 6:7-13 on 5/21/01 4:05 AM: > So far, the > Linux camp is the only ones that have been engaged in plain old > media manipulation, and even then what they have done has been > fumbling first steps. (and they peed away a lot of the attention > that the sky-high IPO's generated last year, which was even worse) > The BSD camp has pretty much totally failed at doing this, > which is probably the biggest reason that we wern't included in > Bruce Peren's essay. Yeah, it's kinda nice like that. I think they have the media under their belt because so many companies have embraced it like IBM. The BSDs don't have large companies standing tall telling everyone how great BSD, how they're puttting it on their hardware, porting their software to it, and how it's the future of computing. The only company that comes to mind is Apple but as we've seen on the FreeBSD-Questions list, they're not very reputable among many users because they don't use a x86 chip in their boxes. What the BSDs need is a good ole advertising campaign. :) What it doesn't need are companies like Red Hat and VA Linux with common stock in the single digits. Heh... Heh... --markemmanuel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message