From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 20 6:37:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (srv1.thuntek.net [206.206.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A78614FEA for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 06:37:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwilde1@thuntek.net) Received: from thuntek.net (abq-057.thuntek.net [207.66.52.57]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.9.1/8.6.12TNT1.0) with ESMTP id HAA17458; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:34:57 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <371C822F.5AAE408F@thuntek.net> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:33:35 -0600 From: Donald Wilde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and memetics References: <4.2.0.32.19990419093753.0454e490@localhost> <19990418080429.A37740@holly.dyndns.org> <4.2.0.32.19990419171213.03ed5730@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > > Mike Avery has raised many good points here. > > >If you compare OS's to religous movements (5), religous movements > >rarely rely on a single way of getting converts. Even churches work > >hard and in varied ways to get visitors through the door, and to keep > >them in the fold after that. Advertisements, special programs, > >personal testimony, booths at fairs, billboards, television programs, > >courting the news media for coverage all have their place. And none > >of them are enough by themselves. If we want to grow, are we doing > >enough? As a newbie, I don't know, I just want to raise the question. > > There are, indeed, many modes of advocacy, just as there are many > modes of advertising. > > To understand why, it helps to see FreeBSD's situation from the > perspective of "memetics" -- a set of useful ideas based on > concepts from the fields of sociology, psychology, genetics, and > comparative religion. > [snipped] Now, _that_ was well said, non-judgemental and very much worth reading. -- Don Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message