Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:54:24 -0600 (CST) From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial Applications?? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970113223016.3690B-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <199701130040.SAA00294@papillon.lemis.de>
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Why not just say "A production quality Unix for IBM PCs" or something similar. (Is *nix or clone more politically correct?) Mentioning Linux at all suggests that Linux is somehow best of breed. FreeBSD offers me what Linux doesn't and Linux offers some things that FreeBSD doesn't. BTW, I don't think a daemon with sneakers _or_ a penguin does much for the marketing effort. `Maudie Frick' will never use Unix knowingly, and the post-pubescent whacker will go for the wildest and wackiest. Your market is really the individual who already knows Unix or a beginner who knows something of the history. Market tradition, maturity and stability. I have to support AIX and at least half the code has a UCB copyright on it. Unix -- as it's known today -- wouldn't exist without BSD! My compliments to the FreeBSD team. To make this good a system that runs on the whore's nightmare of contemporary PC hardware is a truly remarkable achievement! Thank you. -- Cheers Jay On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: ->Doug White writes: ->> On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Keith Leonard wrote: ->> ->>> BTW - drop the 'Berkley alternative to Linux' sounds like you are trying ->>> to catch up or are afraid of Linux - and you shouldn't be, you've got them ->>> beat hands down on almost every front. ->> ->> You're referring to the note on the spine of the 'Complete FreeBSD' book. ->> I have to agree. -> ->Oh. I thought this was a good compromise between "Linux-bashing" and ->introducing as succinctly as possible what the book was all about. ->Some of the alternatives I heard were rather radical, and I didn't ->think that was appropriate. If anybody has a different suggestion ->about how to attract the attention of a half-disinterested browser in ->a bookshop, I'd appreciate it, and I know Walnut Creek would too. -> ->Greg ->
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