From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 3 12: 3:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A092A15096 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:03:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 6600 invoked from network); 3 Mar 1999 20:01:47 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 3 Mar 1999 20:01:47 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA01396; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:01:45 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903032001.PAA01396@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: what's in a name? In-Reply-To: <36DD15A7.DB479EDB@kryptokom.de> from eT at "Mar 3, 99 11:57:44 am" To: eT@KryptoKom.DE (eT) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:01:45 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org eT said: > you know, this whole lin*x thing has me baffled. ... i am wondering > why linux has a larger user/suport base in the first place? could it be that > the word linux just 'sounds' more like a friendly operating system than > FreeBSD? and that because of this new users are more susceptible to > using it? > > i mean, just all the different versions of linux out there would make me > think twice about even starting off with it? > > is linux perhaps a more 'marketable' name than FreeBSD? > > why not let's change the name FreeBSD to some variant > of linux? i agree that the time for advocacy has come upon us more > than ever before! > IMO, the BSD people have generally more dignity and are generally older. The few that are aggressive like the Linux/GPL crew are not considered to be part of the clique. The problems with advocacy are not in the name, but in a false sense of what is needed to make it in the marketplace. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message