Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:48:24 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com> To: Pat Lynch <lynch@bsdunix.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Bazaar part II Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912160928540.20971-100000@vnode.vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912160745260.10407-100000@bytor.rush.net>
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Pat, Sounds like you did a good job. I have a few suggestions. > There were several, very well known problems identified with the BSD's and > the advocacy movement (I call myself a pan-BSD advocate, while my first > choice is obvious by the clothes I wear to these things , FreeBSD) and we > identitifed problems but no solutions, hopefully Marc Rassbach and I will > identify some possible solutions by the time we all leave this evening. > Its way past time to drop "*BSD" and "BSD's" We need to adopt "BSD". Our marketing approach needs to be targeted to tell people about BSD. Only by harnessing the entire strength of the BSD community will people realize just how big we are. Personally, I think FreeBSD is almost as big as RedHat, however RedHat isn't big enough to be "Linux" by itself, there are over 100 distributions that make a big enough impact that Linux gets the press. FreeBSD isn't big enough to storm the opensource market by itself. NetBSD, OpenBSD, and BSDI all have a pretty big market share. We all need to push BSD and people will notice us. Our net presence is quite big when you look at BSD. BSD is a toolbox with several tools, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDI, PicoBSD, OpenBSD, etc... If people feel they can switch between them to use the right one to get the job done, they will stay with BSD because there is a BSD to fit all their needs. The specialization we have achieved, makes us stronger than Linux and we need to market that. I'll get off my soap box now. Chris Coleman Daemon News Editor in Chief http://www.daemonnews.org Bringing BSD together To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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