Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:11:14 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: startribune.com article Message-ID: <3755.935986274@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Aug 1999 19:38:13 PDT." <199908300238.TAA11660@implode.root.com>
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I had a similar impression. Needless to say, I was quoted out of context and had some of my comments which were made by way of explanation for other comments (which were positive) somewhat, erm, strenghtened so I came off sounding like I was bumming out about the situation when I was, in fact, describing problems which had been SOLVED. Oh well, it seems you just can't win with the press. Hopefully my interview with the Wall Street Journal (to be published next week) will be presented in a more balanced light. The Boston Globe article (reprinted here in the star tribune) was done by a Linux advocate who had more of an axe to grind, and I may just stop doing certain kinds of interviews altogether. Then again, as the saying goes: Publicity is publicity! :-) - Jordan > Well, I just read the Star Tribune artice and came away with a very > different impression. I thought it was very imbalanced, gloomy, and > defeatest. It makes us sound as though we're just an irrelevent player > with an extremely small following of snobish hackers. It's true that > Linux is winning the PR game, but I think the conclusions that are drawn > from that are hasty and unthoughtful at best. Further, it didn't do enough > to talk about how strong we are (our large installed base and long list > of prominent sites using FreeBSD - only two were mentioned). Further, it > didn't really talk about the real reason why Linux has been so popular, > which I believe is because Linux is positioned more toward the desktop > market - a far far larger market than the server market that we've focused > on. Of course there is also the popularity (youth, underdog, poor College > student) of Linus among the 15-23 year old contingent, something that we > can't compete with. > The whole thing read to me as just another propaganda piece that you'd > expect to see come out of the mouth of Linus or Eric Raymond. Puke. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org > Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com > Pave the road of life with opportunities. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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