From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jul 24 20:39:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA29143 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 20:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29138 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 20:39:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id UAA25319; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 20:39:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 20:39:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Brett Glass cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD not mentioned on NPR "alternative OSes" show In-Reply-To: <199807250209.UAA01380@lariat.lariat.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well.. this is because we are not an alternative OS. We are THE OS. :) While you were getting cleaned up from your break in, we quickly took over the MS and replaced all the NT systems with FreeBSD (and Win95 with Linux -- they are not that evil). So, now everyone is against FreeBSD because we are the only dominant OS on the market. Ohh shit.. this is 10 years from now and I promised my psychic I wouldn't tell. -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." Observation #1: The more security consultants get paid, the longer their sentences are On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Brett Glass wrote: >Today, NPR's "Talk of the Nation" discussed alternative operating systems >(see http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/archives/1998/980724.totn.html for an >overview and a RealAudio archive). But while they discussed Linux and BeOS, >FreeBSD wasn't mentioned as an option. James Love (assistant to Ralph >Nader) and Nick Petreley (InfoWorld columnist) know darn well that FreeBSD >exists, but talked exclusively about Linux.... Listeners most likely got >the impression that Linux was THE only freely distributed OS. > >This sucks rocks. What's the best way to get such people to acknowledge >FreeBSD's existence? > >--Brett Glass > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message