Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 19:38:13 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: startribune.com article Message-ID: <199908300238.TAA11660@implode.root.com>
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Well, I just read the Star Tribune artice and came away with a very different impression. I thought it was very imbalanced, gloomy, and defeatest. It makes us sound as though we're just an irrelevent player with an extremely small following of snobish hackers. It's true that Linux is winning the PR game, but I think the conclusions that are drawn from that are hasty and unthoughtful at best. Further, it didn't do enough to talk about how strong we are (our large installed base and long list of prominent sites using FreeBSD - only two were mentioned). Further, it didn't really talk about the real reason why Linux has been so popular, which I believe is because Linux is positioned more toward the desktop market - a far far larger market than the server market that we've focused on. Of course there is also the popularity (youth, underdog, poor College student) of Linus among the 15-23 year old contingent, something that we can't compete with. The whole thing read to me as just another propaganda piece that you'd expect to see come out of the mouth of Linus or Eric Raymond. Puke. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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