Date: 27 Nov 1998 15:32:33 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk> To: aturoff@isinet.com Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux to be deployed in Mexican schools; Where was FreeBSD? Message-ID: <8667c1jjem.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk> In-Reply-To: Adam Turoff's message of Tue, 24 Nov 1998 18:19:14 -0500 References: <48004.911945650@zippy.cdrom.com> <98Nov24.180838est.113829@pandora.isinet.com>
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Adam Turoff <aturoff@isinet.com> writes: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > As is my usual gripe in advocacy, what we really need around here > > aren't a bunch of firemen who arrive at the scene of the fire well > > after it has already consumed the building and stand around saying > > meaningful things like "This was a fire! It appears to have burned > > down the building! Fires are bad, someone should do something." > > > > Such firemen are obviously of no use at all and should probably go > > into less challenging professions like chicken inspection or lavatory > > maintenance. What we need are firemen who actually arrive in time to > > have a meaningful affect on fires *as they are happening* or can turn > > practical expertise towards preventing fires in the first place. :-) > > Exactly. If we all whine about how nobody uses FreeBSD while we're > on our own small patch of sand, FreeBSD won't amount to a hill of beans. > We need to advocate among other communities (such as Gnome/KDE, perl, > python, apache, tech/business journalists, etc.). Which reminds me: http://www.perl.org/cgi-bin/survey The current standings are: Respondents so far: 4855 Top 10 most used platforms Linux 3096 Solaris 2329 Win 95, 98, NT 2124 MacOS 1253 SunOS 1240 HP-UX 752 Free-, Net-, OpenBSD 650 IRIX 606 AIX 528 DEC Unix, OSF/1 440 I can't believe there are so little people out there using perl on *BSD. Of course, this mostly advocates perl, but I've seen in various perl newsgroups and/or mailing lists certain OS discussions based on those numbers... -- Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk> The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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