Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 05:13:09 -0500 (EST) From: Lanny Baron <lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: the talk about fbsd in linux and free cd's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002250458290.4070-100000@satan.freebsdsystems.com>
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I must be really stupid. Who in the corporate world cares if FreeBSD is mentioned in a linux mag or article. As a business person, I look in trade magazines and some computer magazines/papers. I will tell you this. In this months Computer paper (Toronto edition) a 1/4 or just slightly larger add from the University of Toronto, showing 4 versions of Linux at the Bookstore at U of T. That IS what gets people buying. Now Jordan, you told the guy in mail here he should go ahead and get free FreeBSD cd's made. Has anyone seen that Microsoft MAKES money? Not by giving away cdroms for sure. It makes my blood boil to see this nonsense. Jordan, and anyone here connected with The FreeBSD Project, I only want to see the organization succeed in all aspects. But the marketing in my eyes is not good. Sorry for the criticism but that is how I see it. Jordan you know what I am up too. And please dont spread it, but I will tell you the marketing budget for 3 years is at well over 2 million dollars. I hope you dont burn free freebsd cdroms. It looks cheap, and people that WANT quality expect it to cost. In their logical minds, it works something like this. Well, lets see, the system the company sells out performs others like NT and Novell and can keep pace with IBM AS 400's. Hmm..and its free...nah how good can it be? Ahh..they will be out of business and then we're stuck. Red Hat here costs at least $60.00 NT costs about 12 or 13 hundred. I wonder who IS making money. I know who is NOT. Regards, Lanny Baron http://ca.samba.org/samba/samba.html <--- official Canadian mirror http://cybertouch.org <--- my sentimental ISP (which i dont advertise) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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