Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:53:34 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: dwilde1@ibm.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A name, please! Message-ID: <199804251653.KAA24254@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <3541F5E1.373CF86A@ibm.net>
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The Great Web Crawl? (Naaah, sounds slow.) The Web Shooter Shootout? Web Free-For-All? --Brett At 07:40 AM 4/25/98 -0700, Don Wilde wrote: >As many of you know, we are going to mount a FreeBSD+Apache effort to >challenge the SPECweb96 (http://www.specbench.org) benchmark on June >26-28. We're going to hold it in Berkeley and make it a real media >circus. History of BSD, the Freeware Movement, etc., etc., etc. We'll >get national exposure for it, and we'll create some of our own. What the >event will be is basically a publicly staged run of the benchmark, with >big-screen videos and live 'net feeds and the whole 9 yds. We'll have a >10' high "thermometer" that will visibly show the results in lights as >our numbers climb. > >The goal of the project is exposure and positive press for FreeBSD in >particular and Apache and other freeware in general. It is not going to >be a 'bash Microsoft' or 'bash Linux' or anything else; we'll take the >high road. The press will make comparisons and grind their own axen for >us. Our goal is to legitimize FreeBSD in the public's mind, and they're >ripe for it because they hate MS and they've heard about this Linux >thingie and now it's time to show them where the real true power of >freeware lies. > >I need a catchy name for the event. SuperPowerFreewareFest doesn't quite >do it... > >--> Don > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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