From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 5 00:37:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA13182 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 00:37:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xwin.webweaver.net (xwin.webweaver.net [208.138.29.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13174 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 00:36:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole@xwin.webweaver.net) Received: (from nicole@localhost) by xwin.webweaver.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id AAA07956; Tue, 5 May 1998 00:37:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 00:37:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole To: Open Systems Networking Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, "Kriston J. Rehberg" , David Greenman Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id AAA13176 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04-May-98 Open Systems Networking wisely wrote: > Seriously though, I think that part of the problem with the "free" is bad > mentality when talking about FreeBSD's name is that people don't realize > just how used FreeBSD is in coporate america. No it isn't selling like > Microsoft. But it also doesn't need to. It takes multiple NT servers to > equal one FreeBSD server. It is alot easier to track NT sales #'s to > FreeBSD. I have no proof of any of this, just speculation and deduction, > but there are lot's of places running FreeBSD in some capacity. I don't > know what capacity but places like bellcore, AT&T (and many sub-divisions > therein), uu-net, and probably many others run FreeBSD on some of their > servers. I think FreeBSD is very well respected in MANY places by MANY > people. People who run the technical side of things in companies. > And they have the right not to admit to it up front and outright. > FreeBSD doesn't enforce a GPL like philosophy :) You run our OS and we > FORCE you to proudly say so! heh > It would be great if they did, it would probably do wonders for us and > give us great publicity. But again they are not obligated to. > And I could be dreaming this and imagining these places powering things > with FreeBSD but i'm willing to bet im not. I dont think people realize > this, simply because we don't have UU-Net or bellcore shouting "Hey! Over > here! Run FreeBSD it is superior to eveything in existance! We power our > electric socks with it!" Just some food for thought for those who think > Free in FreeBSD has made FreeBSD a road less traveled. > Right! That is why I feel we really need a web page on the FreeBSD site that highlites the companies more. Then there is a place for people to see someone from BigXCo saying " we use FreeBSD" That is something can can be looked at, counted and pa raded. Nicole nicole@webweaver.net - http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org - http://www.dangermouse.org/ ------------------------------------------------- -- Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD -- -- Stong enough for a man - But made for a Woman -- -- Microsoft: What bug would you like today? -- -- I tried an internal modem once, but it hurt when I walked -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message