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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:27:54 +0000
From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:20:46PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Nikolas Britton
> > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:09 PM
> > To: Chris
> 
> > >
> > > Maybe you can start, The Queer-Eye for the BSD-Guy.
> > 
> > If thats what it takes to get FreeBSD out of obscurity and into the 
> > enterprise then yes I will, just look at what apple did with BSD and 
> > mozilla did with firefox, I don't want to see FreeBSD (or the other 
> > BSDs) die into obscurity as I really like them.
> > 
> 
> I think there's more FreeBSD installations than Apple installations,
> way, way more.  Obscurity is in the eye of the beholder.  And talk is

I doubt that very much. Don't see a lot of FreeBSD on people's
desktops most places out there. If you're just talking servers I'd
be dubious about that too.