From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 28 10:10:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02213 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 10:10:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lorax.ubergeeks.com (lorax.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02208 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 10:10:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by lorax.ubergeeks.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA03998; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 13:10:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 13:10:09 -0500 (EST) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: chuck@ucsd.edu cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: In support of advocacy... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Chuck Rouillard wrote: > > [chop] > > Yep, if one is interested in doing rather than talking, there are > > plenty of controversy-free and eminently worthy tasks to turn one's > > attention to. > > In the couple of months I've been on advocacy, the dreamers, poets, > and armchair quarterbacks seem to have lots to say about FBSD. > Apparently, 'advocacy' is a cornucopia for issues and well-intended > solutions(sans any strategy for implementation). > > Of course, as much as I anticipate any number of tips, ideas, or > occasional successes in support of FBSD, I see very little except > from, say, Greg(Lehey). > > Let's see some real *SUPPORT* for FBSD! Hell, I work for a company > with it's own UNIX. Staff developers have free access to it and I > still managed to get 3 people in my group to go out and buy 2.2.7 > and build cable-modem gateways in their homes. Hey, just because we don't brag about each convert or satisfied customer that now has a FreeBSD box, doesn't mean we aren't out there promoting FreeBSD. I've got a number of significant local area wins over the last four to five years. I'm not saying that more couldn't be done. Just that what is being done is somewhat underrpresented/understated.... sounds like *BSD advocacy in general... I guess we could develop some ascii art tokens to represent how many kill each of us has and tack them onto our sigs like fighter pilots and their planes. ;-) cheers, Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message