Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:26:11 -0500 (EST) From: Pat Lynch <lynch@bsdunix.net> To: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Bazaar part II Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912161123580.10407-100000@bytor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912160928540.20971-100000@vnode.vmunix.com>
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Thanks, that actually solidified things in my mind. Theres been alot of talk about "tools" herem and describing BSD as a toolkit is a great way to go about it. Thanks. -Pat __ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net lynch@bsdunix.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Chris Coleman wrote: > Pat, Sounds like you did a good job. I have a few suggestions. > > > > There were several, very well known problems identified with the BSD's and > > the advocacy movement (I call myself a pan-BSD advocate, while my first > > choice is obvious by the clothes I wear to these things , FreeBSD) and we > > identitifed problems but no solutions, hopefully Marc Rassbach and I will > > identify some possible solutions by the time we all leave this evening. > > > > Its way past time to drop "*BSD" and "BSD's" We need to adopt "BSD". > > Our marketing approach needs to be targeted to tell people about BSD. > Only by harnessing the entire strength of the BSD community will people > realize just how big we are. > > Personally, I think FreeBSD is almost as big as RedHat, however RedHat > isn't big enough to be "Linux" by itself, there are over 100 distributions > that make a big enough impact that Linux gets the press. > > FreeBSD isn't big enough to storm the opensource market by itself. > NetBSD, OpenBSD, and BSDI all have a pretty big market share. We all need > to push BSD and people will notice us. Our net presence is quite big when > you look at BSD. > > BSD is a toolbox with several tools, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDI, PicoBSD, > OpenBSD, etc... > > If people feel they can switch between them to use the right one to get > the job done, they will stay with BSD because there is a BSD to fit all > their needs. The specialization we have achieved, makes us stronger than > Linux and we need to market that. > > I'll get off my soap box now. > > Chris Coleman > Daemon News Editor in Chief > http://www.daemonnews.org > Bringing BSD together > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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