Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 12:34:39 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@newsguy.com> To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> Cc: "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: branding Message-ID: <199808011634.JAA06160@newsguy.com>
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:30:43 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >1. Send more information on BSD-based products that are *making money*, >that will tell a convincing story to people who are suits not hackers. How about changing that to Open source which is currently used in high profile companies. By "used" I don't mind they have a test box in a dusty corner. I mean companies like Yahoo which run their business (all their http servers with FreeBSD) on Open Source programs. Just because no one made money by selling a program to a company it doesn't mean it is not making inroads into the mainstream. For isntance if a company finds out they can save millions of dollars by using Open Source programs, your pages could show them how other companies HAVE SAVED that money. This would present a better argument for them to try the software than to say that some company made 1M selling services/products based on that Open Source program. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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