Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:33:41 -0600 From: "Kenneth P. Stox" <stox@imagescape.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need some data for a mainstream news artical Message-ID: <1073939621.61461.94.camel@stox.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4002C7CD.3040002@potentialtech.com> References: <4002C7CD.3040002@potentialtech.com>
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On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 10:14, Bill Moran wrote: > Hello all, > > I've managed to get a contact with a local newspaper (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) > and I'm trying to help her put together an article on open source software. > > She's curious to put in some examples of things that run OSS that people might > not even be aware of (such as TiVo boxes). > > I'm sure that between the various BSDs (especially NetBSD) there are lots of > devices using OSS. Some specific examples would be a great help to my > advocacy efforts in this area. > > Any specifics or pointers to sites or any type of information whatsoever > would be very helpful! > > TIA Sure would be nice to put some dollar figures along with that list. If it could be done, I suspect that we would find that BSD based systems are in excess of a $1B/year business. That would definitely draw some attention. -Ken Stox stox@imagescape.com
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