From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 16 07:54:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA03542 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 07:54:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA03530 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 07:54:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.4) id KAA00587; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 10:54:28 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199703161554.KAA00587@crh.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: "The competition" To: robmel@innotts.co.uk (Robin Melville) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 10:54:28 -0500 (EST) Cc: grog@lemis.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from Robin Melville at "Mar 16, 97 10:10:37 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm not sure that you're not missing the point. There is a difference between simple "informative" advertising (our widgets do this, that and the other thing) , and product "sensitivity". The advert for Red Hat which started this strand wa s the latter. The only thing it said about Linux is that you get the source, but it was posed in such a way as to sensitise hacker types to the freedom and cont rol that Linux supposedly gives them, and the key message was that "you are one of us, we understand you -- come join us". Absolutely, but what target market do we want? 13 year olds in front of Pentiums, or the server role in ISP's and corporate America? Traditionally FreeBSD has been marketed at the server role, and I think thats where we want it. Linux is for Play, FreeBSD is for Work. (course it plays just as well too). -Crh Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich