From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Aug 1 09:51:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26469 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 09:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from snark.thyrsus.com ([192.190.237.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26464 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 09:51:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from esr@snark.thyrsus.com) Received: (from esr@localhost) by snark.thyrsus.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA20904; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:55:57 -0400 Message-ID: <19980801125556.A20894@snark.thyrsus.com> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:55:56 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Francisco Reyes Cc: "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: branding References: <199808011634.JAA06160@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 In-Reply-To: <199808011634.JAA06160@newsguy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Sat, Aug 01, 1998 at 12:34:39PM -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francisco Reyes : > On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:30:43 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > >1. Send more information on BSD-based products that are *making money*, > >that will tell a convincing story to people who are suits not hackers. > > How about changing that to Open source which is currently used in > high profile companies. > > By "used" I don't mind they have a test box in a dusty corner. I mean > companies like Yahoo which run their business (all their http servers > with FreeBSD) on Open Source programs. I'm willing to carry stuff like this. Yahoo's case study is already on the site. -- Eric S. Raymond The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. -- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Government" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message