Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:00:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@nvl.virginia.edu> To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Linux is UNIX, and FreeBSD is not?" Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980604165022.27798C-100000@huron.nvl.virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980604101051.17905A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jan B. Koum wrote: > > Who cares? We still have the better OS. Names are nothing in this > game to techies - and they are the ones in most cases making decisions. > > -- Yan I wish that were true. I certainly wasn't the techie that said go out and buy a bunch of WinNT PC's for my lab. All too frequently PC purchasing decisions are being taken out of techie-hands, because it is perceived as no more complex than buying any other piece of office equipment. This is one reason why MS can get such a big boost out of trade rag press that only executives see. Personally I'd like to see FreeBSD receive some of the major standards conformance brands like UNIX, POSIX or XPG. I'd even be willing to contribute money directly to such an approach. Cyngnus/GNU was able to get enough institutions to chip in to get the $100K needed to create a reliable gcc port when Sun unbundled the C compiler. Does anmyone thing we could do the same with FreeBSD standards branding? If anything the fact that there is only one FreeBSD is to our advantage here. Each Linux distribution will need to independently get certified. We only have one OS distribution to worry about. While I agree that the branding is not productive in and of itself, it does open a lot of doors/minds that ignore any product without such a brand. If anything, you can then hold up a copy of HP-UX and FreeBSD in each hand and say, "They're both UNIX(tm). Do you want the cheaper, faster one or the expenssive, proprietary hardware one?" Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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