From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 10 19:25:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19016 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:25:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA18974 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 19:24:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@vnode.vmunix.com) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18460; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:28:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mark) Message-ID: <19980410222810.18575@vmunix.com> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:28:10 -0400 From: Mark Mayo To: Greg Lehey , kris@airnet.net, David Shanes Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" References: <007501bd64a4$85095f40$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com> <352E61A7.570D84C@ninbox.ml.org> <19980410150331.16376@vmunix.com> <19980411103845.40439@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <19980411103845.40439@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 10:38:45AM +0930 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 10:38:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Fri, 10 April 1998 at 15:03:31 -0400, Mark Mayo wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 01:15:03PM -0500, Kris Kirby wrote: > > For those interested, the arguments that worked best for me (note that > > this is for getting CS departments to embrace FreeBSD) : > > > I'm surprised that you haven't mentioned the biggest buzzword > associated with BSD: the Internet. Most of these other terms are > things that only techies have heard of. *Everybody* has heard of the > Internet, which is more than you can say of Linux. Look at the title > of this thread. Since it's Computer Science departments we're talking about, "The Internet" goes with the "Pedigree Factor" I mentioned. :-) Perhaps a gigantic BSD, the first Internet aware OS PR hype would be good. :-) Or something to that effect.. FreeBSD really has quite a depot of good marketing ammunition available. We just soldiers to sign up and start using it.. -Mark > > Greg > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The problem is how do you build tools that understand your programs at a deeper semantic level." - James Gosling To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message