Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 23:54:52 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: abelits@genesyslab.com (Alex Belits), dshanes@personalogic.com, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <5749.892191292@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Apr 1998 02:37:51 -0000." <199804100237.TAA22946@usr02.primenet.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> The division in Linux implementations is very real. I have been I only wish this point got made more often - if nothing else, the public embarassment might result in closer ties between the various Linuxen and you wouldn't have so much trouble porting LDAP, to say nothing of all the other folks in a similar boat. > Spinning market perception is harder than pointing to conclusive > technical information. The corrolary to this being that spinning market perception is also a far more effective PR technique than providing conclusive technical information. :-( > > Please, before doing that try to make a list of goals that it is > > supposed to accomplish. > > I have to admit that I was a bit ticked off by one press release > that stated "Linux is the freely available UNIX implementation", > using "the" instead of "a". The was SunWorld Online (I believe) > quoting Netscape higher-ups over the Mozilla release. If I accomplish no goal other than to have folks say "Linux AND FreeBSD" in the same breath (and, more importantly, same press releases) then I think I'll have more than accomplished the primary mission. > What is the status on the CVS/CVSup Mozilla source repository that > was being considered? That would certainly raise visibility in a > positive way, even if the involvement was only in providing the > technology to Netscape. You could still press-release it... It's up and running at bento.freebsd.org; not sure what the press release would look like though. I wish I were better at writing those. :-( Anyone want to make a buck by writing marketing blurbs on contract? It wouldn't pay much, but I could make it worth your while if you had any kind of talent for it! :-) Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5749.892191292>