From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Dec 21 19:52:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 821FD37B401; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:52:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E6543EDA; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:52:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18PxAe-000MSc-00; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 03:52:56 +0000 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gBM3qtPe034627; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 03:52:55 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBM3qtKm034626; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 03:52:55 GMT Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 03:48:06 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Peter Kieser Cc: freebsd-advocay@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects Message-ID: <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20021221231417.GB32071@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <001101c2a948$2034b5e0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001101c2a948$2034b5e0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18PxAe-000MSc-00*nARcCX5zlqQ* Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 03:24:35PM -0800, Peter Kieser wrote: | On another note, the only reason Linux is getting commerical interest is | because people don't know about FreeBSD, they also don't know about the | goods of the BSD license, if corporations were made aware of how the BSD | license can be used, I gaurntee you we would have more people jumping on the | band wagon for FreeBSD development and such. I just don't think BSD in | general gets enough publicity. I recently read that the new Mandrake licensing plans for commercial will allow modification of the source without requiring they be released. The article remarks how much that is like the BSD license. | Also, on another note. There is really no BSD "desktop" distro, where | everything is configured automatically for you, this would help for newbie | users to pick FreeBSD over Linux. What about drivers? Does Linux still have the advantage they had before of far more drivers? I haven't booted Linux in 3 years or so. ;-) jm -- My other computer is your Windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message