Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 23:18:51 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Message-ID: <199805130618.XAA13127@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 May 1998 00:10:24 CDT." <199805130010240788.00CCE456@mailgate.execpc.com>
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It all started with the AT&T vs BSDI lawsuit it literally scared away hackers from 386bsd. We also lost Bill Jolitz mostly due to the death of his father there were other factors however I believe that was the predominant one. Imagine if the Linux community early on had lost Linus . AT&T prohibited the core team from using the BSD4.4 code so it forced the core team to move to BSD4.4-lite and the usual instabilities that come with such move . The migration took about a year. FreeBSD culture adopted a quiet type attitude and the linux culture adopted in your face type attitude of demanding people to run linux. In the meantime , the freebsd types thought that they were not quite ready for prime time and the linux folks claimed Hey I am up and running come and joins we are great we are fantastic we walk on air! Let us warp in time to 1997: 1. Whistle wins best network appliance at Comdex's fall '97 and FreeBSD gets 0 recognition or mention. http://www.freebsd.org fails to capture the moment. 2. David Filo co-founder of Yahoo writes a nice article pro FreeBSD however the article literally goes unnoticed. 3. http://www.thinker.org goes on-line perhaps the single largest image database in the world and gues what it is all FreeBSD. Additionally, we have failed to market ftp.freebsd.org which is also probably the biggest ftp site in the world. 3. Corel announces NC for Linux! NCI has been deploying NC Client (NetBSD) , NC Server (FreeBSD) On a Red Herring Issue where Larry Ellison was predominantly on the Front Page : Bill Gates states that NC client / server is not that feasible in the PC arena because PC servers can not serve that many clients . Larry Ellison's response: I can with my PC server < silent omission of FreeBSD) 4. Oracle's database runs on FreeBSD however it is not marketed by Oracle nor by NCI however it is used on NCI's Server. In brief, FreeBSD is not currently being recognized because we have failed to capture the moments, our great success stories are not marketed at all, and we are almost destructively silent about the prowess of FreeBSD. The good news is that currently perhaps the world is going to start looking for alternative OS solutions and since the server like orientation that our core team has taken us , we are now a strong server alternative and our desktops are very very stable. Additionally, our ports/package repository and our client/server software update cvs sup makes us a formidable platform . This is not lip service this is the way I see FreeBSD. *We need marketing and apps that is all* Enjoy, Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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