From owner-freebsd-advocacy  Tue Apr 21 14:12:54 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25171
          for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:12:54 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from mailhost1.u.washington.edu (mailhost1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.2])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25080
          for <FreeBSD-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:12:27 GMT
          (envelope-from dmorrisn@u.washington.edu)
Received: from u.washington.edu (dmorrisn@D-128-95-141-142.dhcp.washington.edu [128.95.141.142])
          by mailhost1.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.11) with ESMTP
	  id OAA00801 for <FreeBSD-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:12:24 -0700
Message-ID: <353D0C80.8CD288B8@u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:15:44 -0700
From: Don Morrison <dmorrisn@u.washington.edu>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: FreeBSD-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Yahoo!
References: <199804210154.SAA22142@implode.root.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

> >Why not asking Yahoo to put a little link, on the first page "Why Yahoo
> >is so fast" or simply "FreeBSD"
> >Am I asking the impossible or can we do that?
>
>    We've asked. Many times.
>

Why not put the "Why Yahoo is so fast" on the www.freebsd.org web page?  A
few advocacy anecdotes here and there might make the page (and project)
seem a little more active--by showing examples of _who_ uses freebsd.  I
think that's the point behind trying to have yahoo put a freebsd logo on
their page.  Nowhere on the freebsd homepage does it make reference to our
user base (aside from the "developed and maintained by a large team of
individuals" statement, which uses the verbs "developed" and "maintained"
in their passive forms which makes them hardly worth saying).  Seeing
concrete connections (by anecdote) between an operating system and _who_ is
using it is something that is primarily what a lot of would-be-users are
looking for IMHO.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message