Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 10:02:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <19980411100258.52827@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980409225048.7629B-100000@orion.webspan.net>; from Open Systems Networking on Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 11:19:58PM -0400 References: <3980.892169423@time.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95.980409225048.7629B-100000@orion.webspan.net>
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On Thu, 9 April 1998 at 23:19:58 -0400, Open Systems Networking wrote: > I think we SERIOUSLY need a PR plan of some kind. I think also we can take > the gloves off and start kicking heads without getting nasty about it. We > have several FACTUAL resources that they just CANT compete with. 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\"". >> guys hasn't appeared to have won us anything but lots of nice comments >> from folks like Marc A. at netscape to the effect that "Linux is the >> only free OS alternative." I'm getting tired of that, and if it's >> going to take "breaking ranks" with the rest of the free OS community >> to get our own message out, maybe it's time. > > I second this! But the problemhere is that we have zero PR. I am not > making light of jordans efforts at all. His trips, his talks, his free CD > handouts to promote FreeBSD. But the fact is we dont have any PR that is > making any difference to anyone but geeks. ORA flat out annoys me by > pretty much refusing to do a FreeBSD book. The only publisher I can > respect now would be addison wessley since they have seemed interested in > publishing gregs book. I dont know what happened on that front. Neither do I. Time to nag, I suppose. J Carter Shanklin called me a couple of months ago and was really interested, but things seemed to cool off before he got the book (*if* he got the book). I will report. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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