Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 00:42:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810030040310.5076-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981003002513.12849D-100000@beef.cybertouch.org>
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On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Lanny Baron wrote: [snip] > You have that little daemon pic on all your cd's and on Mr. >Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD. Damn that is a good pic. Why don't you >do marketing with that? Get posters, get brochures. Shit send them to me >and I will go to the University of Toronto and get them in the book store >not to mention the large chain stores. No. YOU get posters. YOU get brochures. Do you think Linus was doing all the advocacy and marketing for Linux? No - the users were. Linus writes code. And that is exactly what FreeBSD people are doing right now, especially with 3.0 coming up. I suggest you get the poster, you spread the word and people will follow you. > > I have hooked up with a well known person in the FreeBSD community >to attempt to make a accounting system (gui) for the FreeBSD os. But as >you are aware or should be, it is massive. I have talked with friends >(accountants--c.a's in the u.s. they are certified public accountants) and >they say that this is a huge undertaking. That is one of the reasons I >needed to learn about samba. > > Anyway, I would not hit the panic button. For one thing FreeBSD is >far easier to install than Linux is. But if you can either get a public >offering of shares or some venture capital, you certainly have the human >resources in the FreeBSD community to "kick ass" > >Now go do it. Lead us by example. -- Yan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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