Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 13:50:44 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> To: =esr@snark.thyrsus.com Cc: reyesf@newsguy.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: branding Message-ID: <35C703A4.CAA637F5@internationalschool.co.uk> References: <199808011634.JAA06160@newsguy.com> <19980801125556.A20894@snark.thyrsus.com> <35C590B4.D718D7CC@helan.org> <19980803111048.D25414@snark.thyrsus.com>
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Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk>: > > How about the imagebase at http://www.thinker.org/ ? > > Looks nonprofit. Yes, it does. It's also a very good example of what free software can do. MS use Terraserver as a demonstration of the quality and response time of their database/web integration systems, which show potential commercial users what they're like. (http://www.ntk.net/doh/terra980710.gif ;-) I think the comparison with TS is quite valid (they are after all doing quite a similar thing to a similar amount of data - I don't know much about the internals of either but they do appear quite similar...), and is a comparison likely to be drawn by many visitors even without it being pointed out to them... I don't know what page you would be thinking of adding examples to but I presume http://www.opensource.org/cases.html which says: > Here you can learn what third parties have to say about the power of the > open-source model. Much of this material discusses Linux, but the lessons > are not specific to Linux; they apply to open source in general. This doesn't suggest anything about profit-vs-nonprofit anyway, and something like thinker.org is far more impressive than the names of some of the for-profits on the Linux-biz page you link to - for example how many suits are even going to scroll down past the ISPs and software developers to get to something they might recognise? Yes, I realise that the page I mention isn't at opensource.org but it's a fairly prominent link. (freebsd does have a commercial gallery btw, at http://www.freebsd.org/cgallery.html, although there is nowhere near as much information as the linuxbiz page). Names like Sony, Fluke, 3com, Boeing, Mercedes-Benz, US Postal Service *will* get recognized if they're seen, but when they're 5 or 6 screens down the page, a lot of people won't make it far enough to see them. > But you can have somebody associated with the project > send me a short writeup for consideration. Sorry, I don't know anyone associated with the project, I'm just trying to suggest something that makes free software look *very* good - I could do a writeup if you like but it will just be constructed from what I can find on the web. Anyone reading know more about it than me? Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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