From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 12 11:31: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5098814A2C for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:30:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mail.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.247]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA27883; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:27:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <382C6A38.A7583695@owp.csus.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:27:52 +0000 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , "Igor B. Bykhalo" , "-chat@FreeBSD" Subject: Re: China loves Linux? References: <4.2.0.58.19991112105353.045a9cc0@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19991112110312.00ac69b0@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > > And the boss says, "Linux is the market leader; heck, even *I* have > heard of it. So don't go switching to this 'Freebie' stuff, whatever > it is." > > Alas, I've had this happen at the sites of some of my clients. They've > INSISTED that I not switch them to FreeBSD. > > I say, quit hoping that they'll switch someday; that's sour grapes. Get > a foot in the door NOW. Hoping that some one moves to FreeBSD should be a proactive thing. To say that you hope so and so ( you boss maybe ) moves to FreeBSD and then not do anything about it isn't really helping. You've got to be able to strike a balance between advocating the good things about FreeBSD and not ticking someone off because you're blind to only one solution. Everyone has different backgrounds, it sounds like you've been in situations where Linux is the foot hold and they don't want to move. That's not the case for everyone, some people are willing to move to "better" solutions. Some people don't feel they need "better" solutions. -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message