Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 00:03:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, brian@hyperreal.org, dwilde1@ibm.net, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: branding Message-ID: <199807310003.RAA05919@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19980730170048.A16844@snark.thyrsus.com> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Jul 30, 98 05:00:48 pm
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> The 1M/year is a proxy for what I'm really trying to accomplish. If you > can persuade me that other success criteria would be just as persuasive to > J. Random Suit, I'll cheerfully add them to the formula. So it's not quite > as open-and-shut as all that. I would like to suggest published Venture Captalization as an alternate criteria. By limiting it to run-rate-per-year, you are missing out on many new entries into the market, and by the time you cover them, they will be "old news". It would be nice if thyour site were enough "on the edge" to be considered a Journalistic resource. This could only aid you by providing a more public platform from which to speak. I think, specifically, the release of Kaffe, the first cleanroom JAVA implementation is worthy of mention. Despite thier positioning as a competitor to my own employer, I'd note Freegate as well, even if the numbers aren't there yet. I'd also note the NetBSD based "Interceptor" box from Vixie Enterprises, Inc., as well as the company that contracts them, the Internet Software Consoritium. > Jordan, if somebody else were to step up and do a better job I would > vanish offstage so fast your head would spin. I don't *want* this > freaking job; I'd rather be hacking. I, for one, heartily appreciate this position. I did both, first with the 386BSD FAQ, and then with the 386BSD patchkit (which Jordan should remember, being one of my downstream victims after Nate Williams. 8^). I *do* object to the door entry fee going to FSF, on political grounds, and would much prefer to bankroll the necessary documents and affidavits proving the clean-rooming Kaffe, or the XFree86 consortium, both of which are rather apolitical (the first is GPL license, the second MIT license; I'm not playing favorites). That said, I'm probably going to end up paying my $10, even if it does go to the people who refused to accept patches in support of BSD a.out based shared libraries. 8-(. In any case, if the run rate criteria was relaxed, even if only in the case of other purely economic criteria, I think feathers would be smoothed on both sides here... Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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