Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:03:58 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Barnacle Wes <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://www3.sco.com/Company/Announce/p081996e.htm Message-ID: <19235.840675838@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:12:52 MDT." <199608220012.SAA24450@xmission.xmission.com>
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> Possibly. On the other hand, FreeBSD et al have not done much to > advertise themselves to the unwashed masses either. I realize that > FreeBSD Inc. is pretty much a shoestring operation run by volunteers, > but it would help to have someone pushing it into the face of magazine > reviewers, etc. It's mostly just a question of time. FreeBSD, Inc. is actually just David and myself, and both of us have been far too tied up with trying to handle the technical/release engineering side lately. No time has really been available for writing nifty magazine articles or pitching the press, as important as I know those things are. :-( To me, that says it's probably time to recruit some additional help if we're to have any hope of breaking out into the mainstream press. If you look at the existing core team, you won't see a group of rabid publisher/speaker types there, and aside from the occasional talk I'm willing to give myself (and that's always like pulling teeth for whomever's organizing it - I'm a reluctant public speaker at best), everyone pretty much keeps their heads down on the technical issues. > and commits across PPP links. I've been planning on writing an article > about this for _Embedded Systems_ magazine, as soon as I dig out from > my current stack of work work, contract work, and yard work. It helps > that I'm married to a very talented technical writer. ;^) Excellent! That's exactly the kind of user-participation we need. Anyone else wishing to, *cough cough*, emulate Wes here more than has my encouragement to do so! Jordan
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