From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Apr 26 12:16:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04472 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 12:04:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out5.ibm.net (out5.ibm.net [165.87.194.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00750 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 11:33:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-34.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.34]) by out5.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA85346; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 18:33:22 GMT Message-ID: <35437D6A.F89803EC@ibm.net> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 11:31:06 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Mayo CC: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in Academia document References: <19980416234453.42186@vmunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If you have some time, I'd appreciate some feedback regarding: > http://www.vmunix.com/advocacy/academia.html I would reverse the order of things. Give the evidence (history, power, other installations) first, with links, then your techniques, then finally a really short summary paragraph with a lot of punch. Your tips are good except that you don't want to post a public document that will sound like it takes devious means to get the job done or that makes profs sound like they are twirps. Remember, profs have search engines too. Take the high road! We have the best operating system for programming, server administration and raw power. Finally, you need to think about the evidence against FreeBSD and post counterarguments. 1) The commercial world is completely SYSV / ATT style. 2) Linux is more popular and also free 3) Windows is more popular and schools get free help from M$. They have a strong incentive to teach job skills rather than power programming, especially at the community/undergrad level. We have the power and flexibility to do real work and the others don't. That's the argument you must make. You still need to do a spell check, 'arsenal' pops out to me. Your grammar must be spotless to have the desired effect. --> Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message