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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Andy Young <ayoung@mosaicarchive.com>
Subject: Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?
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>> and are working not toying around - use FreeBSD.
>
> Not really true and kind of a poor attitude.

possibly but this is what i observe.

> Yes. many people needing high performance already use FreeBSD, but
> there are lots of services that could benefit from FreeBSD who are
> not very aware of it.  They may have heard the name, and even know
> that it is an OS, but have heard it passed off as a non-entity in
> the field and do not know better than that.
Those would not benefit from FreeBSD or anything else.

99.9% of computer users are actually toying with them.