From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 12 16:15:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (srv1.thuntek.net [206.206.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C8C14D96 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:15:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwilde1@thuntek.net) Received: from thuntek.net (abq-116.thuntek.net [207.66.52.116]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.9.1/8.6.12TNT1.0) with ESMTP id RAA09183; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:14:45 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36E9ADA7.AF857EA7@thuntek.net> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:13:27 -0700 From: Donald Wilde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: S K I N N E R Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O'Reilly article: Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG S K I N N E R wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Donald Wilde wrote: > > :)that's wrong with the world. If that means FreeBSD will remain smaller > :)than Linux or NT, well, so be it. It's big enough to thrive, and plenty > :)big enough for we and thee. > > See that is one of the key issues. Granted Linux and MS > Platforms have a larger user base and are more widley known. > But as seen with Windows being widley known and used doesnt > mean that it is the best product. As "small" as freebsd has > been it still continues to be just as good if not better in > some aspects. As long as the current user base stays strong > more people will come over if they see or when they see that > FreeBSD offers them what they want in a more stable > envrionement. Its hard to re-direct the Sheep once they are > on a bandwagon of some sort. Who knows linux might become > better it might not. The energry should be spent on making > FreeBSD better then it already is and from there and market > quality not hype. > my point exactly. Thanks for chiming in! -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ _________ ___==__ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde dwilde1@thuntek.net [ = = ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo---oo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message