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On Aug 24, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Vadim Goncharov wrote:

>> walking all over the competition.  Buzz is a critical part of selling =
ideas in=20
>> open source (for better or worse), and there's no reason we can't =
play in that=20
>> game a bit while maintaining our boring and staid personalities :-).
>=20
> Sure. And taking surveys into account, we could just simply summarize:
> FreeBSD needs marketing :-)

That begs the question of to whom FreeBSD should be marketed. Home =
users? Small-office admins? Datacenter admins? Embedded developers?

- Milo Hyson
Chief Scientist
CyberLife Labs, Inc.