From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 5 22:31:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F5315133 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 22:31:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA00133; Wed, 5 May 1999 23:31:01 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.37.19990505165841.04496830@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.37 (Beta) Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 17:01:54 -0600 To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments In-Reply-To: <199905051810.NAA25028@hostigos.otherwhen.com> References: <4.2.0.37.19990505102722.00c748f0@localhost> <19990505081901.B24172@ontario.mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:51 PM 5/5/99 -0500, Mike Avery wrote: >As I get older, I realize that marketing creates demand. Whether we >like it or not. And that someone will create demand for a class of >product. If you don't create demand for your product, your >competitor will create demand for theirs. Marketing is as essential >as having a product. And it ain't easy. In fact, in it's own way it's >as hard as creating a product. Actually, marketing *is* creating a product. Without marketing, it's just a program, not a product. >I don't think that if someone were to criticize FreeBSD technically >people would seriously tell them to "write your own OS". It's not >easy. And we know FreeBSD wasn't the product of one person in >their basement. Similarly, advocacy isn't a one person job. Very true. >As a FreeBSD newbie, I probably should look more before speaking, >but advocacy and development require different skills. That isn't to >say one person can't have both, but most often they don't. It seems >that there should be a separate group handling publicity, evangalism, >advocacy, and so on. And the group should be more open than the >existing structure seems to be. Absolutely. And since marketing needs HOURS (communicating with humans is MUCH more time-consuming than coding), there also needs to be a financial incentive, at least for the primary marketers. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message