Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:47:42 -0400 From: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve Message-ID: <E1QwQus-000256-ME@hanssachs.home> In-Reply-To: <04EEADEE-380F-48A0-BBBF-1A1673228F90@cyberlifelabs.com> (message from Milo Hyson on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:42:23 -0700) References: <slrnj4oiiq.21rg.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <705869186.20110819012421@serebryakov.spb.ru> <slrnj4r3rl.2853.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108190911480.93669@fledge.watson.org> <slrnj5atk2.7nm.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <04EEADEE-380F-48A0-BBBF-1A1673228F90@cyberlifelabs.com>
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,--- Milo Hyson (Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:42:23 -0700) ----* | 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 | >> open source (for better or worse), and there's no reason we can't play in that | >> game a bit while maintaining our boring and staid personalities :-). | > | > 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? Horror if a wrong decision is made here, and some critical user group is under-marketed: the ideas will no longer sell, the volunteers stop volunteering, and we, the freeloaders, stop freeloading. A company in Russia starts using the free (imagine, they won't pay for it!) Linux instead of FreeBSD: one more ports user is lost, oh my!... Let's unite and find a company that backs FreeBSD commercially: it'll surely make a good profit... doesn't matter if not, when the FreeBSD fate is at stake... we only have a year left... Gotta win that competition -- do something, quick, y'all!.. -- Alex -- alex-goncharov@comcast.net --
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