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Date:      Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:14:05 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>
To:        gurab@lineone.net
Cc:        grog@lemis.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet"
Message-ID:  <199804110214.VAA07045@darkstar.connect.com>
In-Reply-To: <006901bd64e9$a6753a60$0300a8c0@admin.cian.net>

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Greg,

Well said and absolutly correct.  I hope you get the support you need.

Frank


"Christopher Raven" <gurab@lineone.net> wrote:
> It has been commented that over selling FreeBSD could be counter
> productive by stereotyping its users. Quite possibly, but not pushing
> at all could be just as devestating if not more so, if Linux consumes
> the market who will support FreeBSD?
> 
> Look at the Apple Mac - the supposedly independant platform, and now
> part owned by its biggest rival. How? because Microsoft cornered the
> software market and squeezed Apple over. If Linux corners all the
> commercial support, who will use FreeBSD? Even though it is a superior
> platform it could well end up largely unsupported.
> 
> What I am trying to say here is FreeBSD *MUST* be pushed or it will
> lose out to Linux period, and I don't think the Linux community will
> buy into FreeBSD to help it.
> 
> P.S. - why doesn't the FreeBSD team (or others) send FreeBSD
> information to the broadcasting / publishing guys to promote another
> such article (as per Linux) but about FreeBSD. I am sure that the BBC
> could be grabbed - its a start isnt it? Even send me the info and I
> can pester the UK media for you.
> 
> 
> Chris R.
> 
> [sorrry for the wasted bandwidth but I felt it had to be said.]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >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
> 
> 
> 
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