Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:03:56 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Don Wilde <Don@Partsnow.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nominate your favorite enemy corporation Message-ID: <v04011704b23eb559a710@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <361881E7.3A086611@Partsnow.com>
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At 8:23 AM +0000 10/5/98, Don Wilde wrote: >> http://webreview.com/wr/pub/98/10/02/frames/index.html#top > > ... is the URL for Michael Swaine's Inertia Awards contest. I've > nominated a certain company from the Northwest, but I'm sure > multiple nominations won't hurt... ;D My understanding is that this mailing list is for us to discuss how to advocate FreeBSD to new customers, and not a list to waste time with name-calling of the competition. Pissing on microsoft might be fun, but it doesn't convince anyone to "buy into" freebsd. Now, I am sincere in saying it might very well be fun to do, I'm just saying it will not help to advocate freebsd. Let us not get confused as to what actions are really going to help this project gain more happy customers. You can be pretty sure that no one at Microsoft is going to waste their time nominating any other OS in this "inertia" list. They are too busy asking themselves "How can we get more customers?". Or maybe we should have a catagory for "inertia in marketting", and then we can have a grand old time nominating ourselves while microsoft continues to pour resources into capturing the hearts and minds of any and all customers. Microsoft didn't capture 90% of the marketplace thru "inertia". They may not do much for computing innovation in Redmond, but they certainly are not "succeeding thru inertia" either. Just my opinion, obviously... --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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