From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 23 16:02:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2BE7106566C for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:02:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saifi.khan@datasynergy.org) Received: from s219.sureserver.com (s219.sureserver.com [203.194.200.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7B08FC13 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:02:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 23468 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Sep 2009 16:02:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.10.7?) (saifi.khan@datasynergy.org@59.92.172.116) by s219.sureserver.com with ESMTPA; 23 Sep 2009 16:02:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:28:04 +0530 (IST) From: Saifi Khan X-X-Sender: saifi@freebsd To: Allen In-Reply-To: <4AB973DA.6010707@comcast.net> Message-ID: References: <4AB973DA.6010707@comcast.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD (How vague can I get? ;) ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:02:14 -0000 On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Allen wrote: > Hi list, > > First, I want to say thank you. To anyone who's ever used FreeBSD, you've > either loved it outright, or been in awe. How is it possible that something so > complex as an OS can be done without cash to everyone doing it? Now think > about this; How can this OS be so much better than one money can buy? > FreeBSD and *BSD needs some loving and your mail is a wonderful step in that direction. With the support of the community, anything is possible. > I thought about this for a minute before sending this message, and figured why > not? Those Credit Card commercials you see on TV always say "Something > something, 5 dollars, something something 50 dollars, and something something > 300 dollars, getting to do this; Priceless!" > iirc, that sounds like the Standard chartered credit card ad, here in India. > Well, let's try this with FreeBSD: > > A PC from 10 years ago your neighbor tossed in the trash because Vista won't > even install on it let alone run slower than someone on a bicycle racing > someone in a McLaren F1 because they were using Windows 98 on it and XP > crawls on the thing: > > 0 Dollars > > A new bottom of the line PC with non onboard video card, but only 16 MBs of > Video memory, and two monitors used: > > 50 dollars > > An Internet Connection you need anyway these days, about 150 dollars a year... > > An Epiphany that Microsoft's newest OS is going to cost almost 500 dollars and > you can't afford it or the crap you'll be getting on your machine running it > and finding FreeBSD, downloading it for free and getting a couple burnable CDs > from a friend... PRICELESS! > > After almost 10 years, from the day I walked into Best Buy here in Michigan, > and saw on the shelf Mandrake Linux 7.1 and "The FreeBSD PowerPak" with > FreeBSD 4.0 + 6 CD toolkit, + "The Complete FreeBSD" 3.0 book for less than a > hundred dollars, I've always been a fan of FreeBSD and how much power I got > for so little. > > Some friends of mine make fun of me for paying for free software saying it's > stupid to buy something and spend money on something I can get online, and I > continue to buy FreeBSD stuff to help support whenever I can. My last order > was over 500 dollars getting FreeBSD on CD-ROM, and a new version of "The > Complete FreeBSD" book, The FreeBSD Handbook, and then the newer ones Vol1 and > Vol2, and stickers for my Laptop and Desktops, and of course a FreeBSD mouse > pad and label pin, and I'm glad I did. > > I also bought "20 Years of Berkeley Unix" on DVD, with MKM as the speaker. I > can say proudly that my Wife thinks he's amazing and wants to go see him talk > one day. > Wow, unbelievable ! That reads like a teenager's adoration for a rock star ;-) i'd go for Def Leppard. How do you see the *BSD community evolving today ? Is there something that can be done better that makes *BSD capture more mindshare ? i'm a newbie and thank you for your time in advance. thanks Saifi.