From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 19 10:15:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA26739 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 10:15:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu (joelh@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA26734 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 10:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) id NAA20555; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 13:14:47 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 13:14:47 -0400 Message-Id: <199704191714.NAA20555@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: jack@diamond.xtalwind.net CC: mark@quickweb.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from jack on Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:36:08 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]... From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> But seriously, the CS departments are where FreeBSD needs to aim its >> marketing arrows at - learn from the Tobacco companies: get 'em hooked >> while they're young and they'll be yours for eternity. > Talk about deja vu all over again, didn't a company named AT&T do this > with a new product they had called Unix? Anyone know if the tactic > worked? This was before my time, but I thought that was how Unix came into the popular market. People would use it to do learning, then research, then commercial applications. How come Linux is so well-known? What in its history caused it to take the spotlight? Happy hacking, piquan -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped