From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 10 18:15:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03580 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 18:15:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03545; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 18:15:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from opsys@mail.webspan.net) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with SMTP id VAA17340; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:11:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:14:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Open Systems Networking X-Sender: opsys@orion.webspan.net To: Greg Lehey cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , David Shanes , Brett Glass , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" In-Reply-To: <19980411100258.52827@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > Does anybody out there care? What I see is that they will get the > impression "these free UNIXes attract a strange, aggressive kind of > person, each saying \"My UNIX is better than your UNIX\"". I think some do. The idea was not to start a pissing match with linux or NT. It was simply to point out the fact that FreeBSD works harder than other OS's based on actual, verifiable, servers. And I think as previously mentioned we have to pick our target audience. Which someone suggests should be corporate america. And I agree with that. We cannot take the desktop if someone donated 20 trillion dollars to FreeBSD Inc. tommorow :) But we can take server markets, and alot of non-desktop markets. We just need to focus and pick and choose our fights. And we NEED PR. We need to start being visable. More so than we have up to now. Thats my thinking anyway. We are gaining no ground. We need to change this and I think a PR offensive is our best choice right now. It certainly cant do any worse than our invisible image now :) Chris -- "I am closed minded. It keeps the rain out." ===================================| Open Systems Networking And Consulting. FreeBSD 2.2.6 is available now! | Phone: 316-326-6800 -----------------------------------| 1402 N. Washington, Wellington, KS-67152 FreeBSD: The power to serve! | E-Mail: opsys@open-systems.net http://www.freebsd.org | Consulting-Network Engineering-Security ===================================| http://open-systems.net -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQENAzPemUsAAAEH/06iF0BU8pMtdLJrxp/lLk3vg9QJCHajsd25gYtR8X1Px1Te gWU0C4EwMh4seDIgK9bzFmjjlZOEgS9zEgia28xDgeluQjuuMyUFJ58MzRlC2ONC foYIZsFyIqdjEOCBdfhH5bmgB5/+L5bjDK6lNdqD8OAhtC4Xnc1UxAKq3oUgVD/Z d5UJXU2xm+f08WwGZIUcbGcaonRC/6Z/5o8YpLVBpcFeLtKW5WwGhEMxl9WDZ3Kb NZH6bx15WiB2Q/gZQib3ZXhe1xEgRP+p6BnvF364I/To9kMduHpJKU97PH3dU7Mv CXk2NG3rtOgLTEwLyvtBPqLnbx35E0JnZc0k5YkABRO0JU9wZW4gU3lzdGVtcyA8 b3BzeXNAb3Blbi1zeXN0ZW1zLm5ldD4= =BBjp -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message